| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
IJS studies in Judaica, 1570-1581 ; v. 8 |
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IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 8.
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| Contents |
Introductory essay : what is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon -- Ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin -- Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy : Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry -- Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen -- Józio Grojseszyk : a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa |
| Summary |
In this valuable contribution to Jewish studies, Nahshon (Hebrew, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) addresses the question of what defines 'Jewish theatre' and its audience in her introduction to the volume's other 15 essays. International contributors treat the themes of theatre by Jews for Jews produced in Yiddish, theatre by Jews for a broader Polish audience, Jewish presentations in different languages, American Jewish identity in American theatre, and dramatic engagements with the Holocaust and modern Israel on the Israeli stage. A monologue by the biblical character of Abraham is ap |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jewish theater -- Congresses
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Theater, Yiddish -- Poland -- Congresses
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Theater, Yiddish -- Congresses
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Jewish theater -- Europe, Western -- Congresses
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Jewish theater
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Theater, Yiddish
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Drama
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Drama.
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Theater.
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Juden.
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Western Europe
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Poland
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Juden.
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Jiddisch.
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London <2002>
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nahshon, Edna.
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| LC no. |
2009009017 |
| ISBN |
9789047426813 |
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9047426819 |
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1282602284 |
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9781282602281 |
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