New York’s Yiddish Theater
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Edna Nahshon
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-08 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals,
Jewish Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Edna Nahshon
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: BRILL

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While a frequently used term, Jewish Theatre has become a contested concept that defies precise definition. Is it theatre by Jews? For Jews? About Jews? Though
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Rebecca Rovit
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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"Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish
The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Alyssa Quint
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-24 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Jewish Book Award Finalist: “Turns the fascinating life of Avrom Goldfaden into a multi-dimensional history of the Yiddish theater’s formative years.” —
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: Joel Berkowitz
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Collects leading scholars' insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater. While Yiddish the