Yiddish empire : the Vilna troupe, Jewish theater, and the art of itinerancy /
Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage. During World War I, a motley group of teenaged amateurs, impoverished war refugees, and out- of- work Russ...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : the sun never sets on the Yiddish stage
- Spectacular failures : Jewish theater as cultural frontier
- Jargon art : from refugees to artistic visionaries
- Interlude I : rogues and rebels
- Between two worlds : The dybbuk goes global
- Interlude II : love and romance on the road
- Nomadic chutzpah : the Vilna Troupe's accidental avant-garde
- Interlude III : a family affair
- The Vilna Troupe nexus
- Interlude IV : The dybbuk in Auschwitz
- Epilogue : Jewish theater, world theater
- Prologue: the sun never sets on the Yiddish stage
- Spectacular failures: Jewish theater as cultural frontier
- Jargon art: from refugees to artistic visionaries
- Interlude I: rogues and rebels
- Between two worlds: the dybbuk goes global
- Interlude II: love and romance on the road
- Nomadic chutzpah: the Vilna Troupe's accidental avant-garde
- Interlude III: a family affair
- The Vilna Troupe nexus
- Interlude IV: The dybbuk in Auschwitz
- Epilogue: Jewish theater, world theater