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The Yiddish Theater Republic of Sounds and the Performance of Listening
2023Abstract This chapter focuses on modes of listening generated by the Yiddish theater during the outset of the twentieth century. Departing from Moyshe Hurwitz’s four-act opera Yetsies mitsraim (The Exodus from Egypt), it examines the ways whereby listening in and to the Yiddish theater evolved against the backdrop of two simultaneous ...
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2015
For Jewish authors in America who did not write in English, their encounter with English words has tended to emphasize the untranslatability of certain American concepts into their language and culture. This chapter offers diverse illustrations of language encounters that often intersect.
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For Jewish authors in America who did not write in English, their encounter with English words has tended to emphasize the untranslatability of certain American concepts into their language and culture. This chapter offers diverse illustrations of language encounters that often intersect.
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The Moscow State Yiddish Theater
2006An award-winning history of the rise and fall of the Moscow State Yiddish ...
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The Downfall of Haman: Postwar Yiddish Theater between Secular and Sacred
AJS Review, 2008In 1940, just before the Germans entered Paris, Haim Sloves, an Eastern European Jewish intellectual, finished writing a play in Yiddish,Homens mapole, orThe Downfall of Haman.It was an act of resistance, as Haman, the great enemy of the Jews, was a transparent reference to Hitler, but within and beyond that, it continued a project that had absorbed ...
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Let's Perform a Miracle: The Soviet Yiddish State Theater in the 1920s
Slavic Review, 1998The history of the Soviet Yiddish State Theater (Gosudarstvennyi evreiskii teatr, or Goset) provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of Jewish entertainers and the position of Yiddish culture in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. While Solomon Mikhoels, the theater's star actor and director from 1929 until 1949, is well known for his role in ...
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Music as Social History: American Yiddish Theater Music, 1882-1920
American Music, 1984American Yiddish musical theater, a uniquely valuable night school of an immigrant people, had its early flowering in the Bowery area on the Lower East Side of New York City during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It soon rose to a "golden age" flourishing in adjacent places--Grand Street, East Broadway, and Second Avenue up to 14th ...
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Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater
The Slavic and East European Journal, 1983Irwin Radezky, Nahma Sandrow
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Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater
Performing Arts Journal, 1978Alvin Goldfarb +2 more
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