Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage
By: Joel Berkowitz.
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- United States.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Translations into Yiddish -- History and criticism.; Theater, Yiddish -- United States -- History.
Description: "The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York - Manhattan's Bowery and Second Avenue - soon became the world's center of Yiddish theatre.

At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. in Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. "Gordin Is Greater Than Shakespeare":; title: The Jewish King and Queen Lear; title: 2. Classical Influenza, or, Hamlet Learns Yiddish; title: 3. An Othello Potpourri; title: 4. "Parents Have Hearts of Stone": Romeo andJuliet; title: 5. "A True Jewish Jew": A Shylock Quartet; title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.