Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater / Edition 1

by Nahma Sandrow

Overview

A lavishly illustrated world history of the Yiddish theater covering five continents and more than 300 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815603290
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1995
Series:	Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art Ser.
Edition description:	1st Syracuse University Press ed
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Nahma Sandrow teaches at the City University of New York and is the author of Surrealism: Theater, Arts, Ideas.

Editorial Reviews

An admirable feat of scholarship on a marvelous and -alas-vanishing world. I know of no comparable work, so well written, in the field.

Leo Rosten

What a marvelous story it is-a hundred years of incredible vitality. Sandrow has chronicled it with fullness and deep affection.

Stanley Kauffmann

What makes Sandrow's work distinctive is the unusual blend of impeccable scholarship and hilarious backstage anecdote. The vividness of the book is enhanced by a collection of 125 rate illustrations-pictures of actors, scenes from plays and films, posters, newspaper cartoons, and other memorabilia.

The New York Times Book Review - Joseph Papp

I recommend Vagabond Stars to all who are interested in Yiddish theater, its development, and its role in Yiddish culture. The reader will find in it an ocean of information.

Issac B. Singer

Impeccable scholarship and hilarious backstage anecdotes coupled with many rare photographs make this a distinctive work. It is the story of the development of the Yiddish theatre from the 16th century on as presented by Ashkenazic Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. It ends with the Yiddish theatre in America since World War II. It also looks at its influential role in the totality of Yiddish culture.

Jewish Book World

"Sandrow has gloriously re-created the world of the Yiddish theater from the Purim plays of the 1700s in Eastern Europe to the current state of the art in the United States and throughout the world" (LJ 8/77). The book was further praised as scholarly and informative.

Library Journal

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