Modern Jewish Plays
Author | : Jason Sherman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Six plays, six playwrights, six takes on Israel.
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Author | : Jason Sherman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Six plays, six playwrights, six takes on Israel.
Author | : Edward M. Cohen |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0791499375 |
New Jewish Voices presents the first anthology of modern Jewish-American drama. These highly acclaimed plays, previously produced by New York City's nationally-renowned Jewish Repertory Theatre, offer an enjoyable and eye-opening introduction to the unique and modern voice of five young writers. The insights and visions of these playwrights will help redefine Jewish theater. While offering college students and amateur dramatic groups exciting new material, these five plays will entertain and delight every reader. An introduction by Edward M. Cohen, associate director of Jewish Repertory Theatre, outlines the history of Jewish theatre in America, the origins and development of the Jewish Repertory Theatre, the methods and programs of play development used at the theatre, and an analysis of current trends in modern Jewish playwriting. The anthology also includes production photos, a list of all plays produced by the theatre, and original scripts.
Author | : |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2010-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 079148162X |
Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber place the plays in the context of the development of modern drama and Yiddish drama and examine their treatment of social, political, and religious issues. The many ways in which the plays address these issues make them transcend their own time, exciting a new generation of readers and theatergoers.
Author | : Edward M. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780585067094 |
Author | : Joel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0814335047 |
Collects leading scholars' insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater. While Yiddish theater is best known as popular entertainment, it has been shaped by its creators' responses to changing social and political conditions. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business showcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention. Editors Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry have assembled essays from leading scholars that trace the roots of modern Yiddish drama and performance in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and span a century and a half and three continents, beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust, to its post-war life in Western Europe and Israel. Each chapter takes its own distinct approach to its subject and is accompanied by an appendix consisting of primary material, much of it available in English translation for the first time, to enrich readers' appreciation of the issues explored and also to serve as supplementary classroom texts. Chapters explore Yiddish theater across a broad geographical span--from Poland and Russia to France, the United States, Argentina, and Israel and Palestine. Readers will spend time with notable individuals and troupes; meet creators, critics, and audiences; sample different dramatic genres; and learn about issues that preoccupied both artists and audiences. The final section presents an extensive bibliography of book-length works and scholarly articles on Yiddish drama and theater, the most comprehensive resource of its kind. Collectively these essays illuminate the modern Yiddish stage as a phenomenon that was constantly reinventing itself and simultaneously examining and questioning that very process. Scholars of Jewish performance and those interested in theater history will appreciate this wide-ranging volume.
Author | : Alyssa Quint |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0253038626 |
Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most colorful figures, Avrom Goldfaden. Goldfaden (né Goldenfaden, 1840-1908) was one of the first playwrights to stage a commercially viable Yiddish-language theater, first in Romania and then in Russia. Goldfaden’s work was rapidly disseminated in print and his plays were performed frequently for Jewish audiences. Sholem Aleichem considered him as a forger of a new language that "breathed the European spirit into our old jargon." Quint uses Goldfaden’s theatrical works as a way to understand the social life of Jewish theater in Imperial Russia. Through a study of his libretti, she looks at the experiences of Russian Jewish actors, male and female, to explore connections between culture as artistic production and culture in the sense of broader social structures. Quint explores how Jewish actors who played Goldfaden’s work on stage absorbed the theater into their everyday lives. Goldfaden’s theater gives a rich view into the conduct, ideology, religion, and politics of Jews during an important moment in the history of late Imperial Russia.
Author | : Eleanor Reissa |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2016-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781511543514 |
This anthology by Tony Award nominated, Eleanor Reissa, encompasses six decades of modern Jewish life in the United States. These family plays explore the subtle and not-so-subtle effects on a modern woman in a post-Holocaust world. They are bound together by a unique slant toward life, death, God and love. They explore what is humanly and inhumanly possible. The plays go straight to the heart. The characters are brave and funny and tragic and mighty. These plays dispatch sentimental stereotypes, come to grips with life's disappointments and losses, and finally find the joy in knowing them. The Chicago Tribune says "profoundly, beautifully moving...a life affirming dance."
Author | : David Pinski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edna Nahshon |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047426819 |
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 there are no easy answers for these questions, Jewish Theatre: A Global View, contributes greatly to the conversation by offering an impressive collection of original essays written by an international cadre of noted scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel. The essays discuss historical and current texts and performance practices, covering a wide gamut of genres and traditions.
Author | : Glenda Abramson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1011 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134428650 |
The Companion to Jewish Culture - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present was first published in 1989. It is a single-volume encyclopedia containing biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1000 word each.