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Title:

Theatrical performance during the Holocaust : texts, documents, memoirs / edited by Rebecca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

x, 350 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish theater--Europe--History--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Other Authors:

Rovit, Rebecca.
Goldfarb, Alvin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-332) and index.

Contents:

Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton. Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary / Rebecca Rovit -- We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss / Volker Kühn -- Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz / Rebecca Rovit -- Interview with Kurt Michaelis / Rebecca Rovit -- Correspondence / Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten -- Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry -- Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch -- Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt -- Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich -- It's burning / Mordechai Gebirtig -- Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 -- Latvia and Auschwitz / Yonas Turkov -- theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration camps / Alvin Goldfarb -- Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust / Samuel M. Edelman -- Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942 -- Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno ghetto diary / Avraham Tory -- Invitation / Leo Strauss -- Drama behind barbed wire / David Wolff -- Freest theater in the Reich: in the German concentration camps / Curt Daniel -- Yiddish theater of Belsen / Samy Feder -- Voices -- Selections from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillseum -- Selections from Year of fear / Philip Mechanicus -- Selection from The scum of the earth / Arthur Koestler -- Selections from If this is a man / Primo Levi -- Selection from Ravensbrück: the women's death camp / Denise Dufournier -- Theresienstadt / Rebecca Rovit -- Creation in a death camp / Aaron Kramer -- Operatic performances in Terezín: Krása's Brundibár / Jov̌z Karas -- Theresienstadt questions / Leo Strauss -- Letter from Theresienstadt / Kurt Singer -- Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt / Rabbi Erich Weiner -- Czech theater in Terezín / Zdenka ehrlich-Fantlová -- Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] / music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien -- Memories of Theresienstadt / Mirko Tuma -- Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.

Series:

PAJ books

ISBN:

9780801861673 (acid-free paper)
0801861675 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41173837

LCCN:

99029416

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)