Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire

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Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all

Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises

Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America

The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage

The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish

Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper

Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered

Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler

Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble"

Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk

Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists

The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered

Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah