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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... melodramatic Jennie Goldstein; Getzel Becomes a Bridegroom, with comedian Menasha Skulnik in the title role; renowned actor Boris Thomashefsky's production of Polish Wedding; Joseph Rumshinsky's musical, The Girl 2 / Chapter 1.
... musical, The Girl From Warsaw; and the Yiddish Art Theatre's acclaimed adaptation of I. J. Singer's novel, Yoshe Kalb. These plays about the Old World of Jews in transition and about New World Jews in love differed substantially in ...
... musical that celebrates Hitler's arrival as Fuhrer. While Mel Brooks did not derive his plot from Nadir, Brooks's sense of humor, influenced by the Borscht Belt's stand-up comedians and tummlers (Yiddish for entertainer or social ...
... musical stage version of The Producers, based on his own film, the leading 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 ...
... musical. The world also becomes a stage. Late in the forties, when Israel still is debating whether Yiddish or Hebrew should be its national language, the achievements of Nadir and Artef—heralded by Benjamin, his friend (and professor ...
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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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