LEADER 02651nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910807732803321 005 20240516103806.0 010 $a1-58729-408-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000447499 035 $a(EBL)837075 035 $a(OCoLC)56109529 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000245031 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188739 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000245031 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10174621 035 $a(PQKB)10164823 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837075 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12554 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837075 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354442 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000447499 100 $a20011108d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aShakespeare on the American Yiddish stage /$fJoel Berkowitz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in theatre history & culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-800-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-273) and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $aThe professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York--Manhattan's Bowery and Second Avenue--soon became the world's center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890's America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. 410 0$aStudies in theatre history and culture. 606 $aTheater, Yiddish$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aTheater, Yiddish$xHistory. 676 $a792.9/5/0973 676 $a792.95 700 $aBerkowitz$b Joel$f1965-$01619292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807732803321 996 $aShakespeare on the American Yiddish stage$94064563 997 $aUNINA