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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How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity Through Satire Joel Schechter. COVER ... Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter. p. cm ... actors— United States. I. Title. PN3035.S32 2008 792.089'92407—dc22 ...
... actors at the Yiddish theatre collective Artef (Arbeter Teater Farband, or Worker's Theatrical Alliance), when it staged Moishe Nadir's play, Messiah in America.1 Nadir's stage play begins with a comic portrait of theatre producers, and ...
... Yiddish stage satirists like Nadir and his friend, puppeteer Yosl Cutler, differed from those of most other American ... actors performed melodramas and musicals, and provided theatrical escapes from national crisis rather than confrontations ...
How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity Through Satire Joel Schechter. the Jews.” Nadir was by no means the first Yiddish author to write a play about a false messiah. Yiddish ... actors might have seen themselves in Nadir's ...
... character boasts he was a protégé of actor Boris Thomashefsky. Nadir was not a protégé of Thomashefsky; but he knew most of the accomplished Yiddish actors in New York, and their plays, and also may have known Borscht Belt entertainers ...
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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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