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Title Jewish theatre : a global view / edited by Edna Nahshon.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 305 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series IJS studies in Judaica, 1570-1581 ; v. 8
IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 8.
Note "The essays included in this volume were originally presented at an academic conference titled "Jewish theatre," sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies in June 2002 at University College London"--Page [1].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introductory essay : what is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon -- Ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin -- Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy : Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry -- Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen -- Józio Grojseszyk : a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.
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Subject Jewish theater -- Congresses.
Jewish theater.
Theater, Yiddish -- Poland -- Congresses.
Theater, Yiddish.
Poland.
Theater, Yiddish -- Congresses.
Jewish theater -- Europe, Western -- Congresses.
Western Europe.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Nahshon, Edna.
Added Title Jewish theater
Other Form: Print version: Jewish theatre. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009 9789004173354 (DLC) 2009009017 (OCoLC)312445887
ISBN 9789047426813 (electronic book)
9047426819 (electronic book)
9004173358 (alkaline paper)
9789004173354 (alkaline paper)
1282602284
9781282602281
9789004173354 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004173354.i-308