ISBN:
9781587298684
,
1587298686
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 304 S
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2010
Series Statement:
Studies in theatre history and culture
DDC:
792.089/924043
Keywords:
Theater History 19th century
;
Theater History 20th century
;
Jews in the performing arts History
;
Jews Intellectual life 19th century
;
Jews Intellectual life 20th century
;
Theater History
;
19th century
;
Germany
;
Theater History
;
20th century
;
Germany
;
Jews in the performing arts History
;
Germany
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
19th century
;
Germany
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
20th century
;
Germany
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Theater
;
Geschichte 1871-1933
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Theater
;
Geschichte 1871-1933
;
Deutschland
;
Juden
;
Theater
;
Drama
;
Geschichte 1871-1933
Abstract:
Introduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin -- Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim -- How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich --- Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg -- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel -- German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner -- Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx -- Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin -- The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion -- Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman -- Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg -- Epilogue
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: break a leg!
,
Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience
,
How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin?
,
Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage
,
German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka
,
Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre
,
Jewish cabaret artists before 1933
,
Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage
,
The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin
,
Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival
,
Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice
,
The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity
,
Epilogue.
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