Physical Description
x, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933-1941 / Alan E. Steinweis
Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary / Rebecca Rovit
We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss / Volker Kühn
Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz / Rebecca Rovit
Interview with Kurt Michaelis / Rebecca Rovit
Correspondence / Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten
Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry
Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch
Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt
Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich
"It's burning" / Mordechai Gebirtig
Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 / Moshe Fass
Latvia and Auschwitz / Yonas Turkov
Theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration camps / Alvin Goldfarb
Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust / Samuel M. Edelman
Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942
Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary / Avraham Tory
"Invitation" / Leo Strauss
Drama behind barbed wire / David Wolff
"Freest theater in the Reich": in the German concentration camps / Curt Daniel
Yiddish theater of Belsen / Samy Feder
"Voices"
Selections from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum
Selections from Year of fear / Philip Mechanicus
Selection from The scum of the earth / Arthur Koestler
Selections from If this is a man / Primo Levi
Selection from Ravensbrück: the women's death camp / Denise Dufournier
Theresienstadt / Rebecca Rovit
Creation in a death camp / Aaron Kramer
Operatic performances in Terezín: Krása's Brundibár / Joza Karas
Theresienstadt questions / Leo Strauss
Letter from Theresienstadt / Kurt Singer
Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt / Rabbi Erich Weiner
Czech theater in Terezín / Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlová
Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] / Music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien
Memories of Theresienstadt / Mirko Tuma
Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.
Other Authors/Editors
Rovit, Rebecca.
Goldfarb, Alvin.
ISBN
0801861675
0801870917
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933-1941 / Alan E. Steinweis -- Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary / Rebecca Rovit -- We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss / Volker Kühn -- Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz / Rebecca Rovit -- Interview with Kurt Michaelis / Rebecca Rovit -- Correspondence / Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten -- Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry -- Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch -- Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt -- Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich -- "It's burning" / Mordechai Gebirtig -- Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 / Moshe Fass -- Latvia and Auschwitz / Yonas Turkov -- Theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration camps / Alvin Goldfarb -- Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust / Samuel M. Edelman -- Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942 -- Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary / Avraham Tory -- "Invitation" / Leo Strauss -- Drama behind barbed wire / David Wolff -- "Freest theater in the Reich": in the German concentration camps / Curt Daniel -- Yiddish theater of Belsen / Samy Feder -- "Voices" -- Selections from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum -- Selections from Year of fear / Philip Mechanicus -- Selection from The scum of the earth / Arthur Koestler -- Selections from If this is a man / Primo Levi -- Selection from Ravensbrück: the women's death camp / Denise Dufournier -- Theresienstadt / Rebecca Rovit -- Creation in a death camp / Aaron Kramer -- Operatic performances in Terezín: Krása's Brundibár / Joza Karas -- Theresienstadt questions / Leo Strauss -- Letter from Theresienstadt / Kurt Singer -- Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt / Rabbi Erich Weiner -- Czech theater in Terezín / Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlová -- Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] / Music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien -- Memories of Theresienstadt / Mirko Tuma -- Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.
