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Jews and the making of modern German theatre /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rokem, Freddie, 1945-, Malkin, Jeanette R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2010]
Series:Studies in theatre history and culture.
Subjects:
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Jews in the performing arts > Germany > History.
Theater > Germany > History > 20th century.
Theater > Germany > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.