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New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway /
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rival...
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New York :
Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York,
[2016]
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Table des matières:
- Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway / Edna Nahshon
- Yiddish New York / Hasia Diner
- Popular Yiddish theater : music, melodrama, and operetta / Nahmha Sandrow
- Jacob Gordin : the great reformer / Barbara Henry
- Pathbreakers and superstars. Jacob B. Adler and the formation of a theatrical dynasty / Edna Nahshon ; Boris Thomashefsky : matinee idol of the Yiddish stage / Stefanie Halpern ; Molly Picon : darling of Second Avenue / Joshua S. Walden
- Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish art theater movement / Edna Nahshon
- Yiddish political theater : the Artef / Edna Nahshon
- Yiddish theater and the transformation of American design / Arnold Aronson
- Modicut : the Yiddish puppet theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud / Eddy Portnoy
- Yiddish Vaudeville. Entertaining the crowd / Edna Nahshon ; Early Yiddish Vaudeville in New York City / Judith Thissen
- Borscht Belt entertainment / Edna Nahshon
- Tevye's travels : from Yiddish everyman to American icon / Alisa Solomon
- Finale: A gallery of stars from the American Yiddish stage / Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon.