Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008
- Locale
- United States
- Contents
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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. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.
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.
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- English
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- 9781592138722
1592138721 - Additional Form
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- Physical Description
- vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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