Author: Ellen Perecman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095848
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This volume includes works by six Yiddish playwrights: Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.D. Berkowitz, Peretz Hirshbein, H. Leivick and David Pinski. These plays were published in the first half of the 20th century, the majority between 1904 and 1923. Preliminary drafts of six of the plays were published by iUniverse in 2007 in a volume entitled Selected Yiddish Plays: Vol.1. This updated volume includes final drafts and/or full text of plays in the 2007 publication, as well as four additional plays. With the exception of Hirshbein’s ‘A Dream about Time’ , all plays in this volume were produced in New York City between 2005 and 2015 by New Worlds Theatre Project (Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman). The volume represents an effort to foster an appreciation for the literary legacy of Yiddish culture and the extent to which Yiddish literature, and Yiddish plays in particular, have enriched the international cultural and literary landscape.
Ten Yiddish Plays in Translation
Author: Ellen Perecman
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095848
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This volume includes works by six Yiddish playwrights: Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.D. Berkowitz, Peretz Hirshbein, H. Leivick and David Pinski. These plays were published in the first half of the 20th century, the majority between 1904 and 1923. Preliminary drafts of six of the plays were published by iUniverse in 2007 in a volume entitled Selected Yiddish Plays: Vol.1. This updated volume includes final drafts and/or full text of plays in the 2007 publication, as well as four additional plays. With the exception of Hirshbein’s ‘A Dream about Time’ , all plays in this volume were produced in New York City between 2005 and 2015 by New Worlds Theatre Project (Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman). The volume represents an effort to foster an appreciation for the literary legacy of Yiddish culture and the extent to which Yiddish literature, and Yiddish plays in particular, have enriched the international cultural and literary landscape.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532095848
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This volume includes works by six Yiddish playwrights: Sholem Aleichem, Sholem Asch, I.D. Berkowitz, Peretz Hirshbein, H. Leivick and David Pinski. These plays were published in the first half of the 20th century, the majority between 1904 and 1923. Preliminary drafts of six of the plays were published by iUniverse in 2007 in a volume entitled Selected Yiddish Plays: Vol.1. This updated volume includes final drafts and/or full text of plays in the 2007 publication, as well as four additional plays. With the exception of Hirshbein’s ‘A Dream about Time’ , all plays in this volume were produced in New York City between 2005 and 2015 by New Worlds Theatre Project (Producing Artistic Director, Ellen Perecman). The volume represents an effort to foster an appreciation for the literary legacy of Yiddish culture and the extent to which Yiddish literature, and Yiddish plays in particular, have enriched the international cultural and literary landscape.
Selected Yiddish Plays
Author: Ellen Perecman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The book contains modern English adaptations of six plays by turn-of-the-century Yiddish playwrights that have never before been available in English.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The book contains modern English adaptations of six plays by turn-of-the-century Yiddish playwrights that have never before been available in English.
Selected Yiddish Plays
Author: Ellen Perecman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yiddish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Yiddish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ten plays. Translated from the Yiddish by Isaac Goldberg
Author: David PINSKI
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Culture Front
Author: Benjamin Nathans
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812240553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812240553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Bringing together contributions by historians and literary scholars, Culture Front explores how Jews and their Slavic neighbors produced and consumed imaginative representations of Jewish life in chronicles, plays, novels, poetry, memoirs, museums, and elsewhere.
German-Jewish Popular Culture Before the Holocaust
Author: David A. Brenner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134041551
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134041551
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Using modern social theory, David Brenner examines how German-Jewish identity was influenced by the production and consumption of popular culture.
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
From Mesopotamia To Modernity
Author: Burton Visotzky
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429968906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study, and scholars will be refreshed by the balanced, yet challenging treatments found here.These introductory essays cover most major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible and its time up to modern Judaism. The work is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism as well as Church and Synagogue adult study courses. Ideal for reading groups, this work will lead readers to further study of the varied subjects considered. Each essay covers the basic field, be it in a given era of Jewish history or in a defined area of Jewish literature. Suggestions for further reading will assist the reader in moving beyond this volume to explore a given area in further detail. The introductions range from encyclopedic detail through elegiac essay and enthusiastic appreciation of the field considered. The authors hold positions in major academic institutions throughout the United States and Israel.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429968906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
From Mesopotamia to Modernity is a one volume introduction to both Jewish history and literature from its earliest times up to the present. Leading experts in each field of Jewish history and literature contribute original and comprehensive essays introducing their subjects. Beginning readers will learn the rudiments for further study, and scholars will be refreshed by the balanced, yet challenging treatments found here.These introductory essays cover most major aspects of Jewish studies from the Bible and its time up to modern Judaism. The work is designed to serve undergraduate and graduate courses in Judaism as well as Church and Synagogue adult study courses. Ideal for reading groups, this work will lead readers to further study of the varied subjects considered. Each essay covers the basic field, be it in a given era of Jewish history or in a defined area of Jewish literature. Suggestions for further reading will assist the reader in moving beyond this volume to explore a given area in further detail. The introductions range from encyclopedic detail through elegiac essay and enthusiastic appreciation of the field considered. The authors hold positions in major academic institutions throughout the United States and Israel.
The Dybbuk and Other Great Yiddish Plays. Translated and Edited by Joseph C. Landis
Author: Joseph C. Landis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Messiahs of 1933
Author: Joel Schechter
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592138748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592138748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression.