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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... language of East European Jews in May of 1933. They could be seen in the company of actors at the Yiddish theatre collective Artef (Arbeter Teater Farband, or Worker's Theatrical Alliance), when it staged Moishe Nadir's play, Messiah in ...
... language audience means larger profits for the Yiddish-speaking Zipkin and his company. Looking back at the era in which Artef produced Nadir's play, it is tempting to ask whether the leftist collective should have followed Zipkin's ...
... language, Nadir's satire of salvation through capitalism could have toured the country, spreading laughter and political awareness everywhere. Messiah in America and Artef's theatrical art would have become widely known as part of a ...
... language, the achievements of Nadir and Artef—heralded by Benjamin, his friend (and professor of Jewish mysticism) Gershom Scholem, and thirty-six anonymous holy men and women wandering the world—lead to a decision that the former ...
... language production.) Interest in Yiddish theatre was also shown by Clifford Odets, whose Waiting for Lefty attracted considerable attention to the concerns of the labor movement in 1935 when the author and Sanford Meisner staged the ...
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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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