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Jews and the making of modern German theatre [electronic resource] / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem

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Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.
Physical Description
x, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Malkin, Jeanette R. and Rokem, Freddie, 1945-
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Contents
Introduction: 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 Bayerdörfer -- 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.
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9781587298684 (cloth)
1587298686 (cloth)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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