Jews and theater in an intercultural context / edited by Edna Nahshon.

Acknowledgments; Preface; List of Contributors; Religion and Origins; Angel, She-ass, Prophet: The Play and its Set-Design; From Alexandria to Berlin: The Hellenistic Play Exagoge Joins the Jewish Canon; La Pasión de Jesús en Tafí: The Representation of Jews in a Contemporary Argentine Passion Play; Going Against the Grain: Jews and Passion Plays on the American Mainstream Stage, 1879-1929; Plays and Playwrights; Conceptions, Connotations, and/or Actions: The Figuration of Jewish Characters in Heinar Kipphardt's Plays.

Between "I and Thou": Buber, Expressionism and Ernst Toller's Search for CommunityHolocaust Memory in the French-Jewish Theater of Jean-Claude Grumberg; Holocaust; Voices from the Edge of the Abyss: Theatrical Texts from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1941-45; Apart from the Document: Jews and Jewishness in Theater of the Real; Fritz Kortner on the Post-war Stage: The Jewish Actor as a Site of Memory; Interpretations and Reinterpretations; Jews in Fashion at the Moscow Art Theater; Restaging La Juive in a Post-Holocaust Context.

Contemporary Audiences and the Infamous 'Pound of Flesh' in Shakespeare's The Merchant of VeniceThe Contemporary Scene; The Joy of Breaking Taboos: Jews and Post-War German Theater; The Relativization of Victim and Perpetrator in the Hungarian Productions of Merchant of Venice and Mein Kampf; From Purimspiel to Polish Masquerade: Performing Jewish Memory in Tykocin; Diaspora Disneys: 'Jewface' Minstrelsy and 'Jewfaçade' Display in East-Central Europe and Eurasia; From Halakha to Hadassah: Queer Jewish Performance Art; Appendix: Mama's Coming Back, Poor Orphan [A Song] by Jean-Claude Grumberg.

Includes index.

A collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, which addresses Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences roles in the development of the European and American theater.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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