Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business |
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Editor:
| Henry, Barbara Berkowitz, Joel |
Contribution by:
| Henry, Barbara Dauzel, Jeremy Quint, Alyssa Wolitz, Seth L. Bukat, Miroslawa M. Veidlinger, Jeffrey Warnke, Nina Thissen, Judith Baker, Zachary Robboy, Ronald Jones, Faith Aronowicz, Annette Inbar, Donny |
ISBN: | 978-0-8143-3504-8 |
Publication Date: | May 2012 |
Publisher: | Wayne State University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $68.20 |
Book Description:
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Showcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention. Editors Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry have assembled essays from leading scholars that trace the roots of modern Yiddish drama and performance in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and span a century and a half and three continents, beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the...
More DescriptionShowcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention. Editors Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry have assembled essays from leading scholars that trace the roots of modern Yiddish drama and performance in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and span a century and a half and three continents, beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust, to its post-war life in Western Europe and Israel.