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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... Communists 203 12 The Anti-Milkhome Zamlung of 1937: The Yiddish Anti-War Catalogue Reconsidered 221 13 Conclusion: Still Waiting for the Messiah 231 Appendix 239 Acknowledgments 245 Notes 247 Bibliography 279 Index 287 Messiahs of 1933 ...
... Communist Party-funded Yiddish newspaper that in 1929 became the morning paper, Morgn Frayhayt, and in other journals. The fiery polemics, the erotic and epic poems, and the theatrical capes and coats he sported like a dandy brought ...
... Communist programs from 1922 to 1939, he separated himself from many Yiddish poets and artists through his politics, particularly after 1929, when other Yiddish writers left the Communist newspaper Frayhayt to protest its defense of ...
... Communist Party and union activities, rallies, and marches that united those on stage and off. If the satiric play Nadir wrote, and others in the same tradition, did not bring on the Messiah or full employment during the Great ...
... Communism; but some of the humor, the optimism, the social activism, and the daring survive, like ruins, in the texts of plays and in theatre history. The remains of thirties Yiddish theatre in America might also be re- garded as a ...
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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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