Jewish Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Theatre write by Edna Nahshon. This book was released on 2009. Jewish Theatre available 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.
New York’s Yiddish Theater
New York’s Yiddish Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York’s Yiddish Theater write by Edna Nahshon. This book was released on 2016-03-08. New York’s Yiddish Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin
The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin write by Rebecca Rovit. This book was released on 2012-09. The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of Berlin's Jewish Kulturbund Theatre. By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime. Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation, artistic integrity and adaptability, and community and identity."--BACK COVER.
Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater
Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater write by Susan Tumarkin Goodman. This book was released on 2008. Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Soviet Jewish theater in a world of moral compromise / Susan Tumarkin Goodman -- The political context of Jewish theater and culture in the Soviet Union / Zvi Gitelman -- Habima and "Biblical theater" / Vladislav Ivanov -- Yiddish constructivism : the art of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater / Jeffrey Veidlinger -- Art and theater / Benjamin Harshav -- Habima and Goset : an illustrated chronicle
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage
Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage write by Joel Berkowitz. This book was released on 2012. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage available 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.
