Yiddish Plays For Reading And Performance
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Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781438481913 |
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Yiddish theater was first and foremost fine theater, with varied repertory and actors of high quality. The three stage-ready plays and nine individual scenes collected here, most of them well-known in Yiddish repertory but never before translated, offer an introduction to the full range of Yiddish theater. Fresh, lively, and accurate, these translations have been prepared for reading or performance by award-winning playwright and scholar Nahma Sandrow. They come with useful stage directions, notes, and playing histories, as well as comments by directors who have worked in both English and Yiddish theater. In the three full-length plays, a matriarch battles for control of her business and her family (Mirele Efros; or, The Jewish Queen Lear); two desperate women struggle over a man, who himself is struggling to change his life (Yankl the Blacksmith); and, in a charming fantasy village, a poetic village fiddler gambles on romance (Yoshke the Musician). The nine scenes from selected other plays are shaped to stand alone and range in genre from symbolist to naturalist, operetta to vaudeville, domestic to romantic to avant-garde. In her preface, Sandrow contextualizes the plays in modern Western theater history from the nineteenth century to the present. Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance is not nostalgia—just a collection of good plays that also serves as an informed introduction to Yiddish theater at its liveliest.
Landmark Yiddish Plays
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2010-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791481622 |
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Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber place the plays in the context of the development of modern drama and Yiddish drama and examine their treatment of social, political, and religious issues. The many ways in which the plays address these issues make them transcend their own time, exciting a new generation of readers and theatergoers.
God Man and Devil
Author | : Nahma Sandrow |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2015-02-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780815628163 |
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An anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation—all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century—God, Man, and Devil also includes two independent scenes, which in Nahma Sandrow's words, "show off the raucous characteristic of Yiddish theater, especially in popular performance." The settings of the plays range widely—a luxurious parlor, a haunted graveyard, a farmyard, a sweatshop on strike, a subway, and the boardwalk of Atlantic City. They are both comic and mournful, and reflect expressionism, satire, fantasy, farce, suspense, and romance. But all consider the same question: what makes life morally good and worth living? Before the modern Yiddish secular culture evolved as we know it today, Yiddish plays were being written for about a century. As Yiddish-speaking communities flourished, so did their love for theater. "Yiddish playwrights shared their experiences and made them art." Edited to make them more accessible for both reading and performance, each play is accompanied by an introduction, which provides historical context, production histories, and elucidation of references.
God Man and Devil
Author | : Nahma Sandrow |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106018670767 |
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God, Man, and Devil is an anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation, plus two additional independent scenes, all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The settings range widely--a luxurious parlor, a haunted graveyard, a farmyard, a sweatshop on strike, a subway, and the boardwalk of Atlantic City. The plays evoke tears and laughter through melodrama, expressionism, satire, fantasy, farce, suspense, and romance. But all consider the same question: what is life's moral purpose? And all display the theatrical flair that made Yiddish audiences such passionate fans of their dramas and their stars. Translated and edited to make them more accessible for both reading and performance, the plays are accompanied by prefaces and notes to help students of theater and of Jewish culture by providing historical context, production histories, and elucidation of references.
Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre
Author | : David Pinski,Sholem Asch,Peretz Hirschbein |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-08-19 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 064901362X |
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Vagabond Stars
Author | : Nahma Sandrow |
Publsiher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0815603290 |
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Proceedings of a May 1994 symposium held to present cutting edge multidisciplinary work on the characterization of ancient materials; the technologies of selection, production, and usage by which materials are transformed into the objects and artifacts we find today; the science underlying their deterioration, preservation, and conservation; and sociocultural interpretation derived from an empirical methodology of observation, measurement, and experimentation. Over 70 contributions discuss topics that include the visual appearance and the imitation of one material by another; stable protective coatings and materials stability; resource surveying, source characterization, and cultural implications; and process reconstruction as essential to understanding of condition and conservation. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The God of Vengeance
Author | : Sholem Asch |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2023-11-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547726326 |
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This is a drama written in 1906 that uses subject matter that would have been considered scandalous in many circles of the time. The drama is Yiddish. It involves a loving lesbian relationship, women openly talking about domestic abuse, and a desire to escape arranged marriages, and prostitution. It was first performed in 1923. One scene involves a kiss between the two lesbians - the first ever on Broadway - whereupon the whole cast was arrested.
Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre
Author | : Isaac Goldberg |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-08-14 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0649200136 |
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