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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... Brecht's favorite audience. Nadir's play resonates with the theories of Bakhtin and Brecht.15 Perhaps it is not bluff, fakery, or swindle, but the inclusiveness of these scenes, the rousing popular theatre that turns spectators and ...
... Brecht visits the United States and sees several studio collaborations between Artef artistic director Benno Schneider and Moishe Nadir; immensely impressed, Brecht asks Schneider to stage the world premiere of his play, Mother Courage ...
... Brecht's political satire lived on the stage of their Yiddish American counterparts. It was a world where, as Benjamin wrote, “every second of time was the strait gate through which the messiah might enter.”18 Although no one knew what ...
... Brecht's play, The Mother, opened in New York in 1935, the playwright actually visited Artef, and he wrote briefly about one scene in a Yiddish play at Artef (Haunch, Paunch, and Jowl) that displeased him.21 He knew Artef's artists, and ...
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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 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 287 |
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