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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... Reconsidered 141 8 Prosperity's Crisis on Stage: The Yiddish Puppetry of Maud and Cutler 157 9 Leo Fuchs, Yiddish Vaudevillian in “Trouble” 177 10 Yetta Zwerling's Comic Dybbuk 193 11 Menachem Mendel's False Contents.
... puppet show parodying Ansky's classic play, The Dyb- buk, a delirious Kabbalah student dreams of a “united front” formed by poor Jews within the “goyish” (or non-Jewish) crisis of the Depression.2 But his vision of Yiddish activism and ...
... puppet theatre Modicut, and in the Yiddish Unit of the Federal Theatre Project created a special, alternate arena of response to the Great Depression and fascism in the thirties, as they staged ebullient scenes of resistance to ...
... puppet plays parodying The Dybbuk, their work suggested that the theatre troupes staging Ansky's play in New York at that time kept the dybbuk at large in our consciousness. Yiddish theatre itself was a source of dybbuks, at least in ...
... puppet plays of Maud and Cutler looks much like New York in the thirties, complete with Yiddish-speaking capitalists and Communists. In their own ways, these satirists followed the example of producer Menachem Yosef, who observes in ...
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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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