Chagall and the artists of the Russian Jewish theater
By: edited by Susan Tumarkin Goodman ; essays by Zvi Gitelman ... [et al.].
Contributors: Goodman, Susan Tumarkin.; Gitelman, Zvi Y.; Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.); Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Jewish Museum, under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780300111552; 9780873342025
Subjects: Chagall, Marc, -- 1887-1985; Jewish theater -- Soviet Union -- History; Theater, Yiddish -- Soviet Union -- History
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum, N.Y., Nov. 9, 2008-Mar. 22, 2009 and at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Apr. 19-Sept. 7, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Soviet Jewish theater in a world of moral compromise / Susan Tumarkin Goodman; title: The political context of Jewish theater and culture in the Soviet Union / Zvi Gitelman; title: Habima and "Biblical theater" / Vladislav Ivanov; title: Yiddish constructivism : the art of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater / Jeffrey Veidlinger; title: Art and theater / Benjamin Harshav; title: Habima and goset : an illustrated chronicle; title: Artist biographies; title: Timeline.