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Messiahs of 1933 : How American Yiddish Theatre Survived Adversity through Satire /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all
- Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises
- Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America
- The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage
- The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish
- Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper
- Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered
- Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler
- Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble"
- Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk
- Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists
- The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered
- Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.