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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... Rivington Street: The Lower East Side Arises 37 3 Prayer Boxes as Precious as Diamonds: How Soviet Yiddish Satire Fared in America 57 4 The Federal Theatre Project in Yiddish: “The Society of the Sorely Perplexed” Takes the Stage 71 5 ...
... Rivington Street, the tailor who won the lottery, and the false messiahs Artef presented on stage between 1928 and 1940 still can be found in play texts. Immodest proposals that Nadir and his theatre colleagues shaped into plays during ...
... Rivington Street, a long poem published in 1932. He also contributed to the Federal Theatre Project's 1936–37 cabaret revue, We Live and Laugh, discussed later. Few details about his productions can be found in histories of Yiddish ...
... Rivington Street, performed by Artef in 1932, and discussed in Chapter 2.) Politically conscious artists who quarreled in Yiddish over the abuse. Figure 1.2 Artef's 1936 advertisement for Sholem Aleichem's 200,000. Courtesy of the ...
... Rivington Street, discussed in the next chapter, entered this mobile repertoire. The playwright may have shared Buchwald's enthusiasm for the traveling plays, since Messiahs of 1933 / 29.
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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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