Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

Informationen zum Autor Jeanette Malkin is a professor in the Department of Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama: From Handke to Shepard and Memory-Theater and Postmodern Drama. Freddie Rokem is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance! Strindberg's Secret Codes! Performing History: Theatrical Representations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (IOWA 2000)! and Theatrical Space in Ibsen! Chekhov! and Strindberg: Public Forms of Privacy. Klappentext Tells the story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre. This title features historical overviews of the role of theatre in the constitution of Jewish identity in Germany! the position of Jewish theatre artists in the cultural vortex of imperial Berlin! and the impact of Yiddish theatre on German and Austrian Jews and on German theatre. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre. This title features historical overviews of the role of theatre in the constitution of Jewish identity in Germany! the position of Jewish theatre artists in the cultural vortex of imperial Berlin! and the impact of Yiddish theatre on German and Austrian Jews and on German theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette R. Malkin, Jeanette R. (EDT)/ Rokem Malkin, Freddie Rokem
• Assisted by: Jeanette R. Malkin (Editor), Freddie Rokem (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9781587298684
• ISBN: 978-1-58729-868-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies in Theatre History & C; Studies in Theater History & Culture; Studies Theatre Hist & Culture; Studies in Theatre History & C
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet