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Vendor: Edna Nahshon
New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the...- $65.00
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Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of...- $155.00
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Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940
The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the American stage during the half...- $95.00
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