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Title God, man, and devil : Yiddish plays in translation / translated and edited by Nahma Sandrow
Edition 1st ed
Published Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages)
Series Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
Contents God, man, and devil / Jacob Gordin -- Green fields / Peretz Hirschbein -- Shop / H. Levick -- The treasure / David Pinski -- Bronx express : a dream in three acts with a prologue and epilogue / Osip Dymov
Summary An anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation--all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century--God, Man, and Devil also includes two independent scenes, which in Nahma Sandrow's words, "show off the raucous characteristic of Yiddish theater, especially in popular performance." The settings of the plays range widely--a luxurious parlor, a haunted graveyard, a farmyard, a sweatshop on strike, a subway, and the boardwalk of Atlantic City. They are both comic and mournful, and reflect expressionism, satire, fantasy, farce, suspense, and romance. But all consider the same question: what makes life morally good and worth living? Before the modern Yiddish secular culture evolved as we know it today, Yiddish plays were being written for about a century. As Yiddish-speaking communities flourished, so did their love for theater. "Yiddish playwrights shared their experiences and made them art." Edited to make them more accessible for both reading and performance, each play is accompanied by an introduction, which provides historical context, production histories, and elucidation of references. -- Publisher's website 20240108
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Yiddish drama -- Translations into English
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
Yiddish drama
Jiddisch.
Toneelstukken (teksten)
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Sandrow, Nahma
LC no. 98029003
ISBN 9780815628163
0815628161