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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... critic. In addition to adapting short stories for Artef, and seeing his own plays performed by the same company in the 1930s, Nadir collaborated with the distinguished Yiddish director, Maurice Schwartz, who staged several of his plays ...
... critic from their houses. Schwartz, an actor and master of disguise himself, helped Nadir create a new identity—complete with false beard—so he could get past theatre guards on the lookout for the feared reviewer. “And so my enemies ...
... critic Leslie Fiedler once argued in his book Freaks that dwarves are the Jews of the sideshow world13; Nadir's vision of Coney Island unites Jews (the producers) and sideshow artists (curiously, no dwarves) in a world where they are ...
... critic Mikhail Bakhtin; in the sporting crowd, we see hints of Bertolt Brecht's favorite audience. Nadir's play resonates with the theories of Bakhtin and Brecht.15 Perhaps it is not bluff, fakery, or swindle, but the inclusiveness of ...
... critics applaud Schneider's wildly inventive staging of Brecht's epic theatre, which has much in common with Nadir's satire in its mordant depiction of events. The chorus of praise ensures that by 1940 Artef's Mother Courage tours the ...
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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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