Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Note on Transliteration ix
Introduction Joel Berkowitz Barbara Henry 1
Part I Origins, Influences, and Evolution
1 Between Two Worlds: Antitheatricality and the Beginnings of Modern Yiddish Theatre Jeremy Dauber 27
2 The Salon and the Tavern: Yiddish Folk Poetry of the Nineteenth Century Alyssa Quint 40
3 Jacob Gordin in Russia: Fact and Fiction Barbara Henry 64
Part II Toward a Jewish Stage
4 Translations of Karl Gutzkow's Uriel Acosta as Iconic Moments in Yiddish Theatre Seth L. Wolitz 87
5 "Cosmopolitan" or "Purely Jewish?": Zygmunt Turkow and the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theatre Miroslawa M. Bulat 116
6 From Boston to Mississippi on the Warsaw Yiddish Stage Jeffrey Veidlinger 136
Part III Authors, Actors, and Audiences
7 Patriotn and Their Stars: Male Youth Culture in the Galleries of the New York Yiddish Theatre Nina Warnke 161
8 Liquor and Leisure: The Business of Yiddish Vaudeville Judith Thissen 184
9 "Gvald, Yidn, Buena Genre": level Katz, Yiddish Bard of the Rio de la Plata Zachary M. Baker 202
Part IV Recoveries and Reconstructions
10 Reconstructing a Yiddish Theatre Score: Giacomo Minkowski and His Music to Alexander; or, the Crown Prince of Jerusalem Ronald Robboy 225
11 Sex and Scandal in the Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre Faith Jones 251
12 Joy to the Goy and Happiness to the Jew: Communist and Jewish Aspirations in a Postwar Purimshpil Annette Aronowicz 275
13 No Raisins and Almonds in the Land of Israel: A Tale of Goldfaden Productions Featuring Four Hotsmakhs, Three Kuni-Lemls, Two Shulamits, and One Messiah Donny Inbar 295
Notes on Contributors 321
Bibliography 325
Acknowledgments 367
Index 371