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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... upon themselves the tasks of a messiah, inaugurating in artistic form their visions of social justice, peace, and redistributed wealth. Their Yiddish-language responses to inequality and economic hardship in Messiah in America.
... artistic legacies remain outside mainstream American culture. Yet, this does not mean the work of these artists disappeared completely. The unions on strike, the anarchist peddler on Rivington Street, the tailor who won the lottery, and ...
... artists satirizing his type. As seen in Chapter 4, a farsighted administrator in the Federal Theatre Project's Yiddish Unit initiated new translations of Yiddish plays into English in the thirties to reach a wider audience. Had the ...
... Satire Joel Schechter. Figure 1.1 Nadir's Messiah in America comic strip illustrated by Spain Rodriguez. Courtesy of the artist and Jewish Currents. Figure 1.2 Artef's 1936 advertisement for Sholem Aleichem's 200,000. Courtesy.
... artist. Born Isaac Reiss in Narayov, Galicia, in 1885, he arrived in the United States at age 13, when his mother joined his father, who immigrated to New York earlier. By 1902 he was publishing articles for a Yiddish newspaper; he was ...
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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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