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

• Superior document: Brill's series in Jewish studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Nahshon, Edna.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Religion and origins Angel, She-ass, Prophet: /; From Alexandria to Berlin: /; La Pasión de Jesús en Tafí: /; Going Against the Grain: /; Plays and Playwrights Conceptions, Connotations, and/or Actions: /; Between “I and Thou”: /; Holocaust Memory in the French-Jewish Theater of Jean-Claude Grumberg /; Holocaust Voices from the Edge of the Abyss: /; Apart from the Document: /; Fritz Kortner on the Post-War Stage: /; 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 Venice /; The Contemporary Scene The Joy of Breaking Taboos: /; The Relativization of Victim and Perpetrator in the Hungarian Productions of Merchant of Venice and Mein Kampf /; From Purimspiel to Polish Masquerade: /; Diaspora Disneys: /; From Halakha to Hadassah: /; Appendix Mama’s Coming Back, Poor Orphan [A Song] by Jean-Claude Grumberg /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128049624X; 9786613591470; 9004227199
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Edna Nahshon.

Jewish theater practitioners, playwrights, critics, financiers and audiences have played an enormous role in the development of the European and American theater. Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context , a collection of essays by an international cadre of theater scholars, addresses this subject. Focusing on the role of Jews and Jewishness in the theatrical field it discusses the representation of Jews on the American, European, and South American stage, with a strong emphasis on twentieth century theater and the contemporary theatrical scene.