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Title:

Jewish theatre : a global view / edited by Edna Nahshon.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xvi, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Jewish theater--Congresses.
Theater, Yiddish--Poland--Congresses.
Theater, Yiddish--Congresses.
Jewish theater--Europe, Western--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Nahshon, Edna

Notes:

"The essays included in this volume were originally presented at an academic conference titled "Jewish theatre," sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies in June 2002 at University College London"--P. [1]. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introductory essay : what is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon -- Ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin -- Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy : Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry -- Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen -- J©đzio Grojseszyk : a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerd©œrfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica; v. v. 8

ISBN:

9004173358 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004173354 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)312445887

LCCN:

2009009017

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)