Jewish theatre : a global view

Contributors: Nahshon, Edna.

2009, Book , xvi, 305 pages :

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Publication information:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
ISBN:	9789004173354 (alk. paper)
Language:	English
Record ID:	2718091
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Date acquired:	January 28, 2011
More creator details:	edited by Edna Nahshon.
Series statement:	IJS studies in Judaica, v. v. 8
Series title:	IJS studies in Judaica,
General note:	"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].
Contents note:	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 -- Józio 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 Bayerdörfer -- 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.
Contributor:	Nahshon, Edna.

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