Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity Through SatireTemple University Press, 7 трав. 2008 р. - 320 стор. Joel Schechter has rediscovered the funny and often politically-charged plays of the American Yiddish theatre of the 1930s. In Messiahs of 1933 he celebrates their satire, their radical imagination, and their commitment to social change. He introduces readers to the once-famous writers and actors—Moishe Nadir, David Pinski, Yosl Cutler, and others—who brought into artistic form their visions of peace, social justice, and satire for all. Messiahs of 1933 greatly enlarges our understanding of Yiddish theatre and culture in the United States. It examines the innovative stage performances created by the Artef collective, the Modicut puppeteers, and the Yiddish Unit of the Federal Theatre Project. And it introduces to contemporary readers some of the most popular theatre actors of the 30s, including Leo Fuchs, Menasha Skulnik, and Yetta Zwerling. Throughout, it includes relevant photographs and contemporary comic strips, along with the first English-language publication of excerpts from the featured plays. |
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... first scene of Nadir's play, a scheme to profit from messianic longings begins in the office of Broadway theatre producer Menachem Yosef. Desperately seeking new stage acts that will attract spectators, Menachem mentions in passing that ...
... first false messiah in Nadir's play. The “First Messiah Redemption Corporation” and other outrageously inventive plans for financial success take hold. Soon a battle for corporate control of the messiah market erupts. Through his stage ...
... else. Jews had greeted false messiahs in earlier periods of history and literature, notably when Sabbati Zvi (1626–76) became “the Anointed One” and “King of the Jews.” Nadir was by no means the first Yiddish 6 / Chapter 1.
... first Yiddish author to write a play about a false messiah. Yiddish theatre pioneer Avrom Goldfaden's Ben Ami, a melodrama about a false messiah, opened in New York in December 1907. The famous actor Boris Thomashefsky produced the play ...
... first false messiah in his play, Nadir found his beard to be a distinct advantage in the Yiddish theatre world. At the time that he wrote Messiah in America, Yiddish theatre was still quite alive and popular in New York, with over a ...
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The Lower East Side Arises | 37 |
How Soviet Yiddish Satire Fared in America | 57 |
The Society of the Sorely Perplexed Takes the Stage | 71 |
It Cant Happen Here in Yiddish | 105 |
The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper | 121 |
Popular Yiddish Theatre Reconsidered | 141 |
The Yiddish Puppetry of Maud and Cutler | 157 |
Sholem Aleichemand the Communists | 203 |
The Yiddish AntiWar Catalogue Reconsidered | 221 |
Still Waiting for the Messiah | 231 |
Appendix | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 245 |
Notes | 247 |
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