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Author | : Alyssa Quint |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0253038626 |
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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 | : David S. Lifson |
Publisher | : New York : T. Yoseloff |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Jewish theater |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0814335047 |
Download Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Author Joel Berkowitz |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2008-03-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1909821225 |
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This collection of essays conveys a broad range of fundamental ideas about Yiddish theatre and its importance in Jewish life as a reflection of aesthetic, social, and political trends and concerns. The contributions cover such topics as the Yiddish repertoire, including the purimshpil and the relationship between Yiddish drama and the broader European dramatic tradition; the historiography of the Yiddish theatre; the role of music; censorship, both by governmental authorities and from within the Jewish community; and the politics of Yiddish theatre criticism. Taken as a whole, these essays make a significant contribution to our understanding of Jewish literature and culture in eastern Europe and the United States.
Author | : Stefan Kanfer |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307547477 |
Download Stardust Lost Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and run the thriving, influential theaters. He reveals the nightly drama and comedy that played out behind the scenes as well as onstage, and introduces all the players—actors, divas, playwrights, directors, and producers—who made it possible. A richly evocative chronicle of its brief but dazzling existence in America, this is both an elegy for and a tribute to Yiddish theater—lost, but not forgotten.
Author | : Joel Schechter |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1592138748 |
Download Messiahs of 1933 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression.
Author | : Edna Nahshon |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004173358 |
Download Jewish Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Jacob Gordin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300108750 |
Download The Jewish King Lear Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Jewish King Lear, written by the Russian-Jewish writer Jacob Gordin, was first performed on the New York stage in 1892, during the height of a massive emigration of Jews from eastern Europe to America. This book presents the original play to the English-speaking reader for the first time in its history, along with substantive essays on the play’s literary and social context, Gordin’s life and influence on Yiddish theater, and the anomalous position of Yiddish culture vis-�-vis the treasures of the Western literary tradition. Gordin’s play was not a literal translation of Shakespeare’s play, but a modern evocation in which a Jewish merchant, rather than a king, plans to divide his fortune among his three daughters. Created to resonate with an audience of Jews making their way in America, Gordin’s King Lear reflects his confidence in rational secularism and ends on a note of joyful celebration.
Author | : Henry James |
Publisher | : New York : Harper |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Atlantic States |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Debra Caplan |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2018-04-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0472037250 |
Download Yiddish Empire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence