Jews and the making of modern German theatre
By: edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem.
Contributors: Malkin, Jeanette R.; Rokem, Freddie, 1945-
Series: Studies in theatre history and culture
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587298684
Subjects: Theater -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Theater -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews in the performing arts -- Germany -- History; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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 Bayerdoerfer; 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.