{"product_id":"yiddish-plays-for-reading-and-performance-by-nahma-sandrow","title":"Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance by Nahma Sandrow","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollection of three stageworthy Yiddish plays and ten stand-alone scenes, from drama to slapstick, from realism to fantasy, with directors’ notes, playing histories, and other guides to successful English-language performance.  Brief lively notes put the plays in context of modern western theater and modern Jewish history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow is this book different from all other Yiddish play anthologies?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eApproaches Yiddish plays without apology as theater, not as Jewish history, sociology, or nostalgia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePuts Yiddish theater in the context of modern western theaters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnly collection of Yiddish plays and scenes showing a previously unknown wide range of genres (slapstick comedy, poetic symbolism, brutal naturalism, romantic fantasy, domestic drama, etc.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlays are chosen because they are stage worthy and accessible, not only because they are historically significant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIncludes plays that were successfully performed but never before translated and\/or never before printed in any language\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProvides practical performance help for amateurs and professionals (directors’ notes, amplified stage directions, pronunciation guide, production histories)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree full plays and ten scenes, edited and shaped for stand-alone performance:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMirele Efros: or, The Jewish Queen Lear\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacob Gordin, a matriarch’s fierce battle for control of her business, her household, and her dignity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYankl the Blacksmith\u003c\/em\u003e by David Pinski.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoshke the Musician\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rented Bridegroom, The Singer of His Sorrow\u003c\/em\u003e) by Osip Dimov and reworked by Joseph Buloff, a bittersweet fantasy romance with music.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003escenes from drama \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUncle Moses\u003c\/em\u003e by Sholem Asch; immigrant saga \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomeless\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacob Gordin; love story \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSappho\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacob Gordin; brutal “cellar drama” \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Carcass\u003c\/em\u003e by Peretz Hirschbein; symbolist \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween Day and Night\u003c\/em\u003e by Peretz Hirschbein; comic operetta \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMishke and Mashke; or, Europeans in America\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMishke and Moshke; or, The Greenhorns\u003c\/em\u003e) by Joseph Lateiner; strike comedy \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKhantshe in America\u003c\/em\u003e by Nahum Rakov; family drama \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRiverside Drive\u003c\/em\u003e by Leon Kobrin; comedy \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Jackpot\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Two Hundred Thousand, The Big Win\u003c\/em\u003e) by Sholem Aleichem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrief notes put the plays in context of modern western theater and modern Jewish history.  The plays are introduced by “Yiddish Theater as Modern Western Theater,” providing parallels and analyses of styles and genres.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53361870274869,"sku":"kbq1787285530001","price":19.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/yiddish-plays-for-reading-and-performance-by-nahma-sandrow_1.jpg?v=1787285534","url":"https:\/\/trelivora.com\/products\/yiddish-plays-for-reading-and-performance-by-nahma-sandrow","provider":"trelivora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}