New York’s Yiddish Theater (eBook)

From the Bowery to Broadway

Edna Nahshon (Herausgeber)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54107-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "e;Yiddish Broadway"e; and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.

Autor

Edna Nahshon is professor of theater and drama at the Jewish Theological Seminary and senior associate at Oxford University's Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is the author of Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context and Jewish Theatre: A Global View, and the editor of From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays.

Inhalt

Director's Foreword, by Susan Henshaw JonesOverture: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon1. Yiddish New York, by Hasia Diner2. Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta, by Nahmha Sandrow3. Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer, by Barbara Henry4. Pathbreakers and Superstars, by Edna Nahshon, Stefanie Halpern, and Joshua S. WaldenIntermission5. Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement, by Edna Nahshon6. Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef, by Edna Nahshon7. Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design, by Arnold Aronson8. Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud, by Eddy Portnoy9. Yiddish Vaudeville, by Edna Nahshon and Judith Thissen10. Borscht Belt Entertainment, by Edna Nahshon11. Tevye's Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon, by Alisa SolomonFinale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage, by Stefanie Halpern and Edna NahshonEditor's AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsEndnotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54107-4 / 0231541074
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54107-7 / 9780231541077