Jews and the making of modern German theatre
By: edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture; Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781587298684
Description: Introduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin -- Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim -- How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich -- Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg -- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel -- German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner -- Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx -- Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin -- The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion -- Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman -- Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg -- Epilogue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin; title: Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim; title: How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich; title: - Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg; title: Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel; title: German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner; title: Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx; title: Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer; title: Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin; title: The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion; title: Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman; title: Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte; title: The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg; title: Epilogue.