Jewish theatre
Subtitle: a global view
By: edited by Edna Nahshon.
Contributors: Nahshon, Edna.
Series: IJS studies in Judaica
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9789004173354
Subjects: Jewish theater -- Congresses; Theater, Yiddish -- Poland -- Congresses; Theater, Yiddish -- Congresses; Jewish theater -- Europe, Western -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon; title: The ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin; title: Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy: Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry; title: Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen; title: Józio Grojseszyk: a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf; title: The Polish Shulamis: Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th/early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska; title: Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone; title: "The Christian will turn Hebrew": converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi; title: Philosemitism on the London stage: Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon; title: Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish Question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer; title: Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger; title: On arriving front and center: American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff; title: Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi; title: Staying ungooselike: the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot; title: Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments: Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem; title: Abraham's scene / Paolo Puppa.