02651nam 2200565Ia 450 991080773280332120240516103806.01-58729-408-7(CKB)1000000000447499(EBL)837075(OCoLC)56109529(SSID)ssj0000245031(PQKBManifestationID)11188739(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245031(PQKBWorkID)10174621(PQKB)10164823(MiAaPQ)EBC837075(MdBmJHUP)muse12554(Au-PeEL)EBL837075(CaPaEBR)ebr10354442(EXLCZ)99100000000044749920011108d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrShakespeare on the American Yiddish stage /Joel Berkowitz1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20021 online resource (305 p.)Studies in theatre history & cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-800-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index.Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Gordin Is Greater Than Shakespeare": -- The Jewish King and Queen Lear -- 2. Classical Influenza, or, Hamlet Learns Yiddish -- 3. An Othello Potpourri -- 4. "Parents Have Hearts of Stone": Romeo andJuliet -- 5. "A True Jewish Jew": A Shylock Quartet -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York--Manhattan's Bowery and Second Avenue--soon became the world's center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890's America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture.Studies in theatre history and culture.Theater, YiddishUnited StatesHistoryTheater, YiddishHistory.792.9/5/0973792.95Berkowitz Joel1965-1619292MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807732803321Shakespeare on the American Yiddish stage4064563UNINA