| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Prologue: the sun never sets on the Yiddish stage -- Spectacular failures: Jewish theater as cultural frontier -- Jargon art: from refugees to artistic visionaries -- Interlude I: rogues and rebels -- Between two worlds: the dybbuk goes global -- Interlude II: love and romance on the road -- Nomadic chutzpah: the Vilna Troupe's accidental avant-garde -- Interlude III: a family affair -- The Vilna Troupe nexus -- Interlude IV: The dybbuk in Auschwitz -- Epilogue: Jewish theater, world theater |
| Summary |
"Yiddish Empire is the first book, in any language, to tell the story of the Vilna Troupe of Yiddish-speaking theatrical innovators, their persistent homelessness over two decades, and their encounters with other artists as they traveled"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 01/21/2021) |
| Subject |
Ṿilner trupe -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Ṿilner trupe. fast (OCoLC)fst00682284 |
| Subject |
Theater, Yiddish -- History
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Traveling theater -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Theater, Yiddish.
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Traveling theater.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018032100 |
| ISBN |
9780472123681 |
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0472123688 |
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