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Author : Debra Caplan
Release : 2018-04-02
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yiddish Empire by : Debra Caplan
Download or read book Yiddish Empire written by Debra Caplan. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the untold story of a traveling Yiddish theater company and traces their far- reaching influence
Author : Debra Caplan
Release : 2018-04-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 688/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yiddish Empire by : Debra Caplan
Download or read book Yiddish Empire written by Debra Caplan. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage. During World War I, a motley group of teenaged amateurs, impoverished war refugees, and out- of- work Russian actors banded together to revolutionize the Yiddish stage. Achieving a most unlikely success through their productions, the Vilna Troupe (1915– 36) would eventually go on to earn the attention of theatergoers around the world. Advancements in modern transportation allowed Yiddish theater artists to reach global audiences, traversing not only cities and districts but also countries and continents. The Vilna Troupe routinely performed in major venues that had never before allowed Jews, let alone Yiddish, upon their stages, and operated across a vast territory, a strategy that enabled them to attract unusually diverse audiences to the Yiddish stage and a precursor to the organizational structures and travel patterns that we see now in contemporary theater. Debra Caplan’s history of the Troupe is rigorously researched, employing primary and secondary sources in multiple languages, and is engagingly written.
Author : Lothrop Stoddard
Release : 1921
Genre : Caucasian race
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Book Synopsis The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy by : Lothrop Stoddard
Download or read book The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy written by Lothrop Stoddard. This book was released on 1921. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Release : 2003-12-22
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Making Jews Modern by : Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Download or read book Making Jews Modern written by Sarah Abrevaya Stein. This book was released on 2003-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the 20th century, Jews in the Russian and Ottoman empires were caught up in the major cultural and social transformations that constituted modernity for Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewries, respectively. What language should Jews speak or teach their children? Should Jews acculturate, and if so, into what regional or European culture? What did it mean to be Jewish and Russian, Jewish and Ottoman, Jewish and modern? Sarah Abrevaya Stein explores how such questions were formulated and answered within these communities by examining the texts most widely consumed by Jewish readers: popular newspapers in Yiddish and Ladino. Examining the press's role as an agent of historical change, she interrogates a diverse array of verbal and visual texts, including cartoons, photographs, and advertisements. This original and lively study yields new perspectives on the role of print culture in imagining national and transnational communities; Stein's work enriches our sense of cultural life under the rule of multiethnic empires and complicates our understanding of Europe's polyphonic modernities.
Author : Jeffrey A. Grossman
Release : 2000
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis The Discourse on Yiddish in Germany from the Enlightenment to the Second Empire by : Jeffrey A. Grossman
Download or read book The Discourse on Yiddish in Germany from the Enlightenment to the Second Empire written by Jeffrey A. Grossman. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the uses of Yiddish language in German literary and cultural texts 1781 until the late nineteenth century. This book explores the uses of Yiddish language in German literary and cultural texts from the onset of Jewish civil emancipation in the Germanies in 1781 until the late 19th century. Showing the various functions Yiddish assumedat this time, the study crosses traditional boundaries between literary and non-literary texts. It focuses on responses to Yiddish in genres of literature ranging from drama to language handbooks, from cultural criticism to the realist novel in order to address broader issues of literary representation and Jewish-German relations in the 18th and 19th centuries. Professor Grossman shows how the emergence of attitudes toward Jews and Yiddish is directly related to linguistic theories and cultural ideologies that bear a complex relationship to the changing social and political institutions of the time. Amidst the rise of national ideologies and modern anti-Semitism, the increasing consolidation of institutions, and the drive to cultural homogeneity in the 18th- and 19th-century German context, Yiddish functioned as an anarchic element that, in the view of its opponents, "threatened" to dissolve German nationalculture. Grossman locates the response to Yiddish in the context of historical events (the Hep Hep Riots of 1819, the Revolution of 1848) and institutional changes (Jewish legal emancipation, the promotion of Bildung as an educational and cultural ideal). In its methodology and its focus, this study seeks to show how the conflicted responses to the Yiddish language point to the problems that connected and frequently divided Jews and Germans as they soughtto re-invent themselves for a new and unsettling context.
