Jewish theatre  a global view /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Edna Nahshon. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2009. 
 - xvi, 305 p. :  ill. 
 - IJS studies in Judaica,  v. v. 8  1570-1581 ; .
 - IJS studies in Judaica ;  v. 8. .
<br/><br/> "The essays included in this volume were originally presented at an academic conference titled "Jewish theatre," sponsored by the Institute of Jewish Studies in June 2002 at University College London"--P. [1]. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introductory essay : what is Jewish theatre? / Edna Nahshon -- Ritual space as theatrical space in the Jewish folk theatre / Ahuva Belkin -- Jacob Gordin's dialogue with Tolstoy : Di Kreytser sonata (1902) / Barbara Henry -- Isaac Bashevis-Singer's attitude to the Yiddish theater as shown in his works / Nathan Cohen -- Józio Grojseszyk : a Jewish city slicker on the Warsaw popular stage / Michael C. Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jewish theater--Congresses.<br/>Theater, Yiddish--Poland--Congresses.<br/>Theater, Yiddish--Congresses.<br/>Jewish theater--Europe, Western--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3035  / .J496 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.089/924