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1 online resource (406 pages). |
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text file |
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Brill's series in Jewish studies
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Brill's series in Jewish studies.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Preface; List of Contributors; Religion and Origins; Angel, She-ass, Prophet: The Play and its Set-Design; From Alexandria to Berlin: The Hellenistic Play Exagoge Joins the Jewish Canon; La Pasión de Jesús en Tafí: The Representation of Jews in a Contemporary Argentine Passion Play; Going Against the Grain: Jews and Passion Plays on the American Mainstream Stage, 1879-1929; Plays and Playwrights; Conceptions, Connotations, and/or Actions: The Figuration of Jewish Characters in Heinar Kipphardt's Plays. |
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Between "I and Thou": Buber, Expressionism and Ernst Toller's Search for CommunityHolocaust Memory in the French-Jewish Theater of Jean-Claude Grumberg; Holocaust; Voices from the Edge of the Abyss: Theatrical Texts from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1941-45; Apart from the Document: Jews and Jewishness in Theater of the Real; Fritz Kortner on the Post-war Stage: The Jewish Actor as a Site of Memory; Interpretations and Reinterpretations; Jews in Fashion at the Moscow Art Theater; Restaging La Juive in a Post-Holocaust Context. |
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Contemporary Audiences and the Infamous 'Pound of Flesh' in Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceThe Contemporary Scene; The Joy of Breaking Taboos: Jews and Post-War German Theater; The Relativization of Victim and Perpetrator in the Hungarian Productions of Merchant of Venice and Mein Kampf; From Purimspiel to Polish Masquerade: Performing Jewish Memory in Tykocin; Diaspora Disneys: 'Jewface' Minstrelsy and 'Jewfaçade' Display in East-Central Europe and Eurasia; From Halakha to Hadassah: Queer Jewish Performance Art; Appendix: Mama's Coming Back, Poor Orphan [A Song] by Jean-Claude Grumberg. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews in literature.
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Jews in literature. |
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Drama. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Theater -- History -- 19th century.
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Theater. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Theater -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Jews in the performing arts.
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Jews in the performing arts. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Nahshon, Edna.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nahshon, Edna. Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004227170 |
| ISBN |
9789004227194 (electronic book) |
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9004227199 (electronic book) |
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9789004227170 |
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9004227172 |
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