LEADER 03867nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910785013703321 005 20230725024716.0 010 $a1-58729-934-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000040462 035 $a(EBL)843249 035 $a(OCoLC)648759729 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929620 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406449 035 $a(PQKB)10962132 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843249 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3013 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843249 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10388616 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000040462 100 $a20090821d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aJews and the making of modern German theatre$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (322 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in theatre history and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-868-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: break a leg! / Jeanette R. Malkin -- Reflections on theatricality, identity and the modern Jewish experience / Steven E. Aschheim -- How "Jewish" was theatre in imperial Berlin? / Peter Jelavich --- Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg -- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel -- German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner -- Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. Marx -- Jewish cabaret artists before 1933 / Hans-Peter Bayerdo?rfer -- Transforming in public: Jewish actors on the German expressionist stage / Jeanette R. Malkin -- The shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin / Shelly Zer-Zion -- Max Reinhardt between Yiddish theatre and the Salzburg Festival / Lisa Silverman -- Theatre as festive play: Max Reinhardt's productions of The merchant of Venice / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- The unknown Leopold Jessner: German theatre and Jewish identity / Anat Feinberg -- Epilogue. 330 $aWhile it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed. Yet for a brief time, during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, Jewish artists and intellectuals moved away from a segregated Jewish theatre to work within canonic German theatre and performance venues, claiming the right to be part of the very fabric of German culture. Their involvement, especially in the theatre capital of Berlin, was of a major magnitude both numerically and i 410 0$aStudies in theatre history and culture. 606 $aTheater$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTheater$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews in the performing arts$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aJews$zGermany$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aJews in the performing arts$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life 676 $a792.089/924043 701 $aMalkin$b Jeanette R$0175939 701 $aRokem$b Freddie$f1945-$0618682 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785013703321 996 $aJews and the making of modern German theatre$93688186 997 $aUNINA