Physical Description
vi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents
Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all
Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises
Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America
The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage
The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish
Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper
Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered
Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler
Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble"
Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk
Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists
The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered
Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.
ISBN
9781592138722
1592138721 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.
