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Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire

Title
Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.
Author
Schechter, Joel, 1947-
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

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Description
vi, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Nadir, Moishe, 1885-1943
  • Pinski, David, 1872-1959
  • Skulnik, Menasha, 1892-1970
  • Fuchs, Leo
  • Zwerling, Yetta, 1894-1982
  • Artef
  • Theater, Yiddish > United States > History
  • Satire, Yiddish > United States > History and criticism
  • Yiddish drama > United States > History and criticism
  • Jewish actors > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.
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.
Call Number
*PTQ 12-894
ISBN
  • 9781592138722 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1592138721 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007036744
OCLC
171613779
Author
Schechter, Joel, 1947-
Title
Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.
Imprint
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.
Research Call Number
*PTQ 12-894
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