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BL
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1030923
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b785293
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| Main Entry
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Schechter, Joel,1947-
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| Title & Author
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Messiahs of 1933 : : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire /\ Joel Schechter.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: Temple University Press,, [2008].
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, ©2008
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1 online resource (vi, 295 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1592138748
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: 9781592138746
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1592138721
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9781592138722
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285) and index.
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| Contents
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Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all -- Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises -- Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America -- The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage -- The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish -- Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper -- Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered -- Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler -- Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble" -- Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk -- Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists -- The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered -- Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.
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| Abstract
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A lively examination of Yiddish theatre during the Great Depression.
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Jewish actors-- United States.
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Satire, Yiddish-- United States-- History and criticism.
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Theater, Yiddish-- United States-- History.
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Yiddish drama-- United States-- History and criticism.
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HISTORY-- General.
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Jewish actors.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Theater-- General.
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Satire, Yiddish.
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Theater, Yiddish.
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Yiddish drama.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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792.089/924073
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| LC Classification
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PN3035.S32 2008eb
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