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Language: en
Pages: 398
Pages: 398
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Collects leading scholars' insight on the plays, production, music, audiences, and political and aesthetic concerns of modern Yiddish theater. While Yiddish the
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-24 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
Jewish Book Award Finalist: “Turns the fascinating life of Avrom Goldfaden into a multi-dimensional history of the Yiddish theater’s formative years.” —
Language: en
Pages: 301
Pages: 301
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-06 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press
This collection of essays conveys a broad range of fundamental ideas about Yiddish theatre and its importance in Jewish life as a reflection of aesthetic, socia
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-04 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press
The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began m
Language: en
Pages: 343
Pages: 343
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence
