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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... story on which he later based his 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 ...
... stories for Artef, and seeing his own plays performed by the same company in the 1930s, Nadir collaborated with the distinguished Yiddish director, Maurice Schwartz, who staged several of his plays, including The Last Jew in 1921. His ...
... story.22) Without question, the audience for messianic and satiric Yiddish theatre in the thirties was small, compared to the audience attending Second Avenue musicals, melodramas, and the Yiddish Art Theatre. Certainly the audience ...
... story of the Messiah's long-awaited arrival and his inability to get past Ellis Island” because of his Bolshevism was “the oddest song” among many responding to the Soviet revolution.29 Perhaps Nadir heard Jacobs sing the comic number ...
... stories by Goset and Artef won considerable praise for these Yiddish theatres, and made Aleichem, posthumously, a contemporary of Soviet and American radicals in the thirties. Critic Naomi Seidman observed that from its inception ...
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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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