Theatrical performance during the Holocaust
Subtitle: texts, documents, memoirs
By: edited by Rebecca Rovit and Alvin Goldfarb.
Contributors: Rovit, Rebecca.; Goldfarb, Alvin.
Series: PAJ books
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Jewish theater -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
Genres: Personal narratives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-332) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933-1941 -- Alan E. Steinweis; title: Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary -- Rebecca Rovit; title: We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss -- Volker Kühn; title: Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz -- Rebecca Rovit; title: Interview with Kurt Michaelis -- Rebecca Rovit; title: Correspondence -- Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten; title: Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry --; title: Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch --; title: Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt --; title: Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich --; title: "It's burning" -- Mordechai Gebirtig; title: Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 --; title: Latvia and Auschwitz -- Yonas Turkov; title: Theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration camps -- Alvin Goldfarb; title: Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust -- Samuel M. Edelman; title: Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942 --; title: Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary -- Avraham Tory; title: "Invitation" -- Leo Strauss; title: Drama behind barbed wire -- David Wolff; title: "Freest theater in the Reich": in the German concentration camps -- Curt Daniel; title: Yiddish theater of Belsen -- Samy Feder; title: "Voices" --; title: Selections from Letters from Westerbork -- Etty Hillseum; title: Selections from Year of fear -- Philip Mechanicus; title: Selection from The scum of the earth -- Arthur Koestler; title: Selections from If this is a man -- Primo Levi; title: Selection from Ravensbrück: the women's death camp -- Denise Dufournier; title: Theresienstadt -- Rebecca Rovit; title: Creation in a death camp -- Aaron Kramer; title: Operatic performances in Terezín: Krása's Brundibár -- Jov̌z Karas; title: Theresienstadt questions -- Leo Strauss; title: Letter from Theresienstadt -- Kurt Singer; title: Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt -- Rabbi Erich Weiner; title: Czech theater in Terezín -- Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlová; title: Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] -- Music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien; title: Memories of Theresienstadt -- Mirko Tuma; title: Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history-- Sybil H. Milton.