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Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage /

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 moving westward, and New York--Manhattan's Bowery and Second Avenue--soon became the world's center of Yiddish theatre. At first th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berkowitz, Joel, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002.
Series:Studies in theatre history and culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Gordin is greater than Shakespeare": the Jewish king and Queen Lear
  • Classical influenza, or, Hamlet learns Yiddish
  • Othello potpourri
  • "Parents have hearts of stone": Romeo and Juliet
  • "True Jewish Jew": a Shylock quartet.