Jewish Theatre

by Nahshon, Edna

• ISBN13: 9789004173354
• ISBN10: 9004173358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
Contributors to the Volume	p. xiii
Introductory Essay: What is Jewish Theatre?	p. 1
The World of Yiddish
Ritual Space as Theatrical Space in Jewish Folk Theatre	p. 15
Jacob Gordin's Dialogue with Tolstoy: Di Kreytser Sonata (1902)	p. 25
Isaac Bashevis-Singer's Attitude to the Yiddish Theater as Shown in His Works	p. 49
Between Jews and Poles
Józio Grojseszyk: A Jewish City Slicker on the Warsaw Popular Stage	p. 65
The Polish Shulamis: Jewish Drama on the Polish Stage in the Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries	p. 81
Negotiating Identities in English, Italian and German
Jewish Languages and Jewish Characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo Schiavetto	p. 101
"The Christian will turn Hebrew": Converting Shylock on Stage	p. 113
Philosemitism on the London Stage: Sydney Grundy's An Old Few	p. 133
Jewish Self-Presentation and the "Jewish Question" on the German Stage from 1900 to 1930	p. 153
Popular Jewish Drama in Vienna in the 1920s	p. 175
Presence and Absence in the American Theatre
On Arriving Front and Center: American Jewish Identity on the American Stage	p. 199
Generational Shifts in American Jewish Theatre	p. 215
Performing the Holocaust/Debating Israel on Stage
Staying Ungooselike: The Holocaust and the Theatre of Choice	p. 241
Job's Soul and Otto Weininger's Torments: Jewish Themes in the Theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol	p. 257
Index	p. 269
Appendix
Abraham's Scene (introductory essay)	p. 285
Abraham (dramatic monologue)	p. 301
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