Jews and theatre in an intercultural context
By: edited by Edna Nahshon
Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789004227170
Subjects: Drama; History; Theater; Jews in literature; History and criticism; Jews in the performing arts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Other titles: Jews and theater in an intercultural context
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Religion and origins. Angel, she-ass, prophet: the play and its set-design / Simon Levy; title: From Alexandria to Berlin: the Hellenistic play Exagoge joins the Jewish canon / Sarit Cofman-Simhon; title: La Pasion de Jesus en Tafi: the representation of Jews in a contemporary Argentine passion play / Tamara Kohn; title: Going against the grain: Jews and passion plays on the American mainstream stage, 1879-1929 / Edna Nahshon; title: Plays and playwrights. Conceptions, connotations, and/or actions: the figuration of Jewish characters in Heinar Kipphardt's plays / Matthias Naumann; title: Between "I and thou": Buber, expressionism and Ernst Toller's search for community / David Garfinkle; title: Holocaust memory in the French-Jewish theater of Jean-Claude Grumberg / Seth L. Wolitz; title: Holocaust. Voices from the edge of the abyss: theatrical texts from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1941-45 / Lisa Peschel; title: Apart from the document: Jews and Jewishness in theatre. Of the real / Carol Martin; title: Fritz Kortner on the postwar stage: the Jewish actor as a site of memory / Michael Bachman; title: Interpretations and reinterpretations. Jews in fashion at the Moscow Art Theater / Laurence Senelick; title: Restaging La Juive in a Post-Holocaust context / Hans-Peter Bayerdoerfer; title: Contemporary audiences and the infamous 'pound of flesh' in Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Melia Bensussan; title: The contemporary scene. The joy of breaking taboos: Jews and postwar German theatre / Anat Feinberg; title: The relativization of victim and perpetrator in the Hungarian productions of Merchant of Venice and Mein Kampf / Aniko Szucs; title: From Purimspiel to Polish masquerade: performing Jewish memory in Tykocin / Brigitte Sion; title: Diaspora Disneys: 'Jewface' minstrelsy and 'Jewfacade' display in East-Central Europe and Eurasias / S.I. Salamensky; title: From Halakha to Hadassah: queer Jewish performance art / Carol Zemel.