Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
זמנים; רבעון להיסטוריה
Angaben zur Quelle:
99 (2007) 46-53
Keywords:
שיקספיר, ויליאם,
;
שורץ, מוריס,
;
אבן זהב, ארי,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Antisemitism in the theater
;
Theater, Yiddish
;
Jewish theater
Abstract:
Focuses on the characterization of Shylock by Maurice Schwartz (1890-1960), who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine as a child and founded a Yiddish theater in New York in the interwar period. In 1947, after performing in DP camps in Europe and adopting two Jewish orphans, Schwartz produced the Yiddish play "Shylock un zayn tokhter" ("Shylock and His Daughter"), based on the Hebrew novel by Israeli writer Ari Ibn-Zahav, "Shylock, ha-yehudi mi-Venetsiah" (1942). Schwartz's work was considered a "protest play"; it showed Shylock as a victim of the Christians. Schwartz himself played the part of Shylock, in addition to producing and directing the play. Aware of antisemitism in the U.S., he desired to cleanse the name of Shylock the Jew and to teach a lesson in morality, and therefore he also published the play in English translation.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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