New Yorks Yiddish Theater - From the Bowery to Broadway

Vividly illustrated and with contributions from leading historians and critics, this history recounts in absorbing detail the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and its crossover to American culture. The story of the Yiddish theater is therefore a tale of creativity and legacy, immigrants who in the process of becoming Americans had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic landscape.

List of contents

Director's Foreword, by Susan Henshaw Jones
Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway, by Edna Nahshon
1. Yiddish New York, by Hasia Diner
2. Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta, by Nahmha Sandrow
3. Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer, by Barbara Henry
4. Pathbreakers and Superstars, by Edna Nahshon, Stefanie Halpern, and Joshua S. Walden
Intermission
5. Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement, by Edna Nahshon
6. Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef, by Edna Nahshon
7. Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design, by Arnold Aronson
8. Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud, by Eddy Portnoy
9. Yiddish Vaudeville, by Edna Nahshon and Judith Thissen
10. Borscht Belt Entertainment, by Edna Nahshon
11. Tevye's Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon, by Alisa Solomon
Finale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage, by Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon
Editor's Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Edited by Edna Nahshon

Summary

Vividly illustrated and with contributions from leading historians and critics, this history recounts in absorbing detail the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and its crossover to American culture. The story of the Yiddish theater is therefore a tale of creativity and legacy, immigrants who in the process of becoming Americans had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic landscape.

Product details

• Authors: Museum of the City of New York, Edna Nahshon, Edna Nashon, Edna Museum of the City of New York Nashon
• Assisted by: Edna Nahshon (Editor), Nahshon Edna (Editor), Edna Nashon (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780231176705
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17670-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Theatre Studies, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities