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Performing modernism : a Jewish avant-garde in Bucharest
- Title
- Performing modernism : a Jewish avant-garde in Bucharest / Alexandra Chiriac
- Author
- Chiriac, Alexandra
- Publication
- Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N6496.3.R66 B83 2022g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 231 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- This volume examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in interwar Romania. It follows the transnational trajectories of several remarkable Jewish avant-garde artists, actors, and directors based in Bucharest, the country's capital, in the 1920s and 1930s. The first part of the book recovers the history of Bucharest's first modern design institution and investigates its links with German design and the Bauhaus. The second half focuses on several innovative collaborations in the realm of Yiddish theatre, including the time spent in Romania by the world-renowned Vilna Troupe. Based on extensive original research, the book shows how Bucharest was connected to Berlin, Riga, and Chicago, highlighting the contribution of Jewish cultural production to avant-garde movements in Europe and beyond.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Contains bibliographical references (pages 220 - 231)
- Call Number
- N6496.3.R66
- ISBN
- 3110765586
- 9783110765588
- OCLC
- on1291170914
- 1291170914
- SCSB-14345987
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries