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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... comedy early in the play, when Jack describes his uncle as a sick man who can't perform heavy labor or stand on his feet for long. Stage directions in Act One call for the old man to faint. The crowd exclaims: “He fell, our messiah ...
... comedy and songs. Along with Brooks's The Producers, Messiah in America opens for a long run on Broadway as an antic anti-capitalist musical. The world also becomes a stage. Late in the forties, when Israel still is debating whether ...
... comedy, Getzel Becomes a Bridegroom. While hardly known for radical political action, Skulnik in the role of Getzel was part of the larger theatre movement through which Yiddish culture responded to crises of the period. The comic actor ...
... comedy about a lottery- winning tailor, 200,000, received favorable recognition in the English- language press. These successes attracted Broadway and Hollywood celebrities to Artef, and for a brief period, the theatre advertised names ...
... comedy, The Witch, would bring dishonor and degradation to the Jewish community.38 Other debates between proponents of “art” and shund followed, and Nadir entered the dispute from time to time. The appeal of shund through Yiddish ...
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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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