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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... peddler on Rivington Street, the tailor who won the lottery, and the false messiahs Artef presented on stage between 1928 and 1940 still can be found in play texts. Immodest proposals that Nadir and his theatre colleagues shaped into ...
... satiric writing of these two authors would have prepared him well for the verbal humor and radical politics within Rivington Street. Performing the poem, Gendl portrayed an old street peddler living on the Lower 38 / Chapter 2.
... peddler living on the Lower East Side. Nadir briefly compares his basket-carrying peddler to the famous Yiddish stage character, Hotsmakh, a merchant in Goldfaden's play, The Witch. By 1932, if Hotsmakh had lived longer and immigrated ...
... peddler, found themselves with almost nothing, or far less than they had dreamed of securing, when the stock market crashed in 1929. The peddler was a cloak maker for thirty-four years before he lost his job and took to the streets. He ...
... peddler's recollections. Not to think of themselves must have been hard for spectators, their friends, and relatives, when the fruit seller recalled Lower East Side street life: I still remember The street, don't cha know . . . I still ...
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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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Messiahs of 1933: How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire Joel Schechter Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2008 |
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