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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... play. Ben Ami, who rehearsed his company in Coney Island at one point, could have inspired the play's Coney Island sideshow scenes. There were other famous rivalries among the creators of Yiddish theatre in New York (notably those ...
... play's Coney Island sideshow, Moishe Nadir also stood apart from the crowd. As a fervent supporter of Communist programs from 1922 to 1939, he separated himself from many Yiddish poets and artists through his politics, particularly ...
... play's comic dialogue about the Communist Messiah also could be read as a nonmusical variation on the Yiddish song, “What Will Happen When the Messiah Comes?” (“Vos Vet Zayn Az Meshiakh Vet Kumen?”), which according to Eleanor and ...
... play's messiahs. The messianic impulses of Nadir and Artef led them to create in theatre a world that would accommodate their vision of history and their community, when the world outside would not. Working-class struggles for social ...
... play was produced in 1927. It is possible Nadir would have written and published Messiah in America if Artef did not ... play's self-conscious dialogue about theatre and messianism. In an essay on Yiddish poetry, Irving Howe and Eliezer ...
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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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