Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Nahshon, Edna
2. Museum of the City of New York, host institution.

Description

1. 327 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 27 cm

Summary

1. "In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the scene on Broadway. While these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic and aesthetic creations and their play with politics and history came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with contributions from leading historians and critics, this history recounts in absorbing detail the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and its crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development."--Back cover.

Alternative title

1. From the Bowery to Broadway

Subject

1. Jewish theater
2. Theater, Yiddish
3. 1900-1999
4. Museum of the City of New York Art collections > Exhibitions
5. Exhibition catalogs
6. Jewish theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
7. History
8. Museum of the City of New York
9. Theater, Yiddish > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
10. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Art collections > Exhibitions
11. New York (State) > New York
12. Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
13. Art museums

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. History.

Contents

1. Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway / Edna Nahshon -- Yiddish New York / Hasia Diner -- Popular Yiddish theater : music, melodrama, and operetta / Nahmha Sandrow -- Jacob Gordin : the great reformer / Barbara Henry -- Pathbreakers and superstars. Jacob B. Adler and the formation of a theatrical dynasty / Edna Nahshon ; Boris Thomashefsky : matinee idol of the Yiddish stage / Stefanie Halpern ; Molly Picon : darling of Second Avenue / Joshua S. Walden -- Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish art theater movement / Edna Nahshon -- Yiddish political theater : the Artef / Edna Nahshon -- Yiddish theater and the transformation of American design / Arnold Aronson -- Modicut : the Yiddish puppet theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud / Eddy Portnoy -- Yiddish Vaudeville. Entertaining the crowd / Edna Nahshon ; Early Yiddish Vaudeville in New York City / Judith Thissen -- Borscht Belt entertainment / Edna Nahshon -- Tevye's travels : from Yiddish everyman to American icon / Alisa Solomon -- Finale: A gallery of stars from the American Yiddish stage / Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon.

Call number

1. JFF 18-839

Note

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of the City of New York, March 9-July 31, 2016.
2. "Featuring images from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-321) and index.

Title

1. New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway / edited by Edna Nahshon.

Publisher

1. New York : Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York, [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-321) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Nahshon, Edna, editor.
2. Museum of the City of New York, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2015958268

ISBN

1. 9780231176705 (cloth)
2. 0231176708 (cloth)

Research call number

1. JFF 18-839
2. MWED (New York) 16-1804