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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... portrayed a scheming theatrical producer in a film created by Mel Brooks, Nadir developed this earlier comic version of The Producers. Nadir's confidence men sell tickets to the arrival of the messiah, instead of producing a musical ...
... portrayed within his play, if an account of its 1929 staging is any indication. Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro saw Act One of Messiah in America performed in 1929, and recalled the audience around him laughing at the white-bearded messiah ...
... portray the false messiah as a man incapable of standing upright; Simkhe is not an upright man. The physical ... portrays the sideshow Indian (the man who sold Manhattan). A man also portrays the bearded lady: the gender-bending He/She ...
... portraying Jack the Bluffer, an audience may well cheer and laugh when he escorts a producer to the center of the ring and declares: “On this side, weighing in with close to one million dollars in previous earnings, Mr. Menachem Yosef ...
... portrayed in Moishe Nadir's play were only actors. And yet the author and artists with whom he collaborated were messianic, if only for an hour or two at a time, as some of their plays showed audiences the promised land (America, not ...
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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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