Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage

by Berkowitz, Joel; Henry, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780814335048
• ISBN10: 0814335047
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Wayne State Univ Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

Joel Berkowitz is the director of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies and a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, editor of Yiddish Theatre: New Approaches, and co-editor of Landmark Yiddish Plays: A Critical Anthology. Barbara Henry is associate-professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and an affiliate of the Jewish studies program at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her study Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama was published by the University of Washington Press in 2011.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Note on Transliteration	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Origins, Influences, and Evolution
Between Two Worlds: Antitheatricality and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Theatre	p. 27
The Salon and the Tavern: Yiddish Folk Poetry of the Nineteenth Century	p. 40
Jacob Gordin in Russia: Fact and Fiction	p. 64
Toward a Jewish Stage
Translations of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta as Iconic Moments in Yiddish Theatre	p. 87
"Cosmopolitan" or "Purely Jewish?": Zygmunt Turkow and the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theatre	p. 116
From Boston to Mississippi on the Warsaw Yiddish Stage	p. 136
Authors, Actors, and Audiences
Patriotn and Their Stars: Male Youth Culture in the Galleries of the New York Yiddish Theatre	p. 161
Liquor and Leisure: The Business of Yiddish Vaudeville	p. 184
"Gvald, Yidn, Buena Genre": level Katz, Yiddish Bard of the Rio de la Plata	p. 202
Recoveries and Reconstructions
Reconstructing a Yiddish Theatre Score: Giacomo Minkowski and His Music to Alexander; or, the Crown Prince of Jerusalem	p. 225
Sex and Scandal in the Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre	p. 251
Joy to the Goy and Happiness to the Jew: Communist and Jewish Aspirations in a Postwar Purimshpil	p. 275
No Raisins and Almonds in the Land of Israel: A Tale of Goldfaden Productions Featuring Four Hotsmakhs, Three Kuni-Lemls, Two Shulamits, and One Messiah	p. 295
Notes on Contributors	p. 321
Bibliography	p. 325
Acknowledgments	p. 367
Index	p. 371
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