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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... characters when the play based on his story was performed first in 1929 and then in 1933. Long before Zero Mostel portrayed a scheming theatrical producer in a film created by Mel Brooks, Nadir developed this earlier comic version of ...
... 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 ...
... character on stage is not a messiah, but an impostor, a greenhorn immigrant hired by a theatre producer to ... characters—fea- tured in his Coney Island show are frauds, like the young messiah. A Jewish actor portrays the sideshow Indian ...
... character—the crowd—through these speeches. Similar casting occurs in the sideshow, when Charlie the Barker tells the audience they are “now standing before one of the great wonders of the century.” If the audience accepts its role in ...
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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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Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire Joel Schechter Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2008 |
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