Landmark Yiddish Plays A Critical Anthology

Name: Landmark Yiddish Plays A Critical Anthology
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ISBN: 9780791467800

ISBN-10: 0791467805

ISBN-13: 9780791467800

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jeremy Dauber, Joel Berkowitz, Jeremy Dauber

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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. Book…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Translators' Note


Silliness and Sanctimony



Serkele, or, In Mourning for a Brother



The Two Kuni-Lemls




Music to The Two Kuni-Lemls


Miriam



The Duke