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245 10 a| Messiahs of 1933 :b| how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire /c| Joel Schechter.;

260 a| Philadelphia :b| Temple University Press,c| 2008.;

300 a| vi, 295 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.;

505 0 a| Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all -- Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises -- Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America -- The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage -- The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish -- Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper -- Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered -- Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler -- Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble" -- Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk -- Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists -- The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered -- Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.;

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Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.

Author/creator	Schechter, Joel, 1947-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Description	vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Theater, Yiddish--United States. --History. Satire, Yiddish--United States. --History and criticism. Yiddish drama--United States. --History and criticism. Jewish actors--United States.

Contents	Messiahs of 1933: how playwright Moishe Nadir and Artef led America out of the Great Depression to a future of full employment, justice and Yiddish satire for all -- Nadir's Rivington Street: the Lower East Side arises -- Prayer boxes as precious as diamonds: how Soviet Yiddish satire fared in America -- The federal theatre project in Yiddish: "The Society of the Sorely Perplexed" takes the stage -- The messiah of 1936: It can't happen here in Yiddish -- Pinski's prelude to a golden age: The tailor becomes a storekeeper -- Menasha Skulnik becomes a bridegroom: popular Yiddish theatre reconsidered -- Prosperity's crisis on stage: the Yiddish puppetry of Maud and Cutler -- Leo Fuchs, Yiddish vaudevillian in "Trouble" -- Yetta Zwerling's comic dybbuk -- Menachem Mendel's false profits: Sholom Aleichem and the Communists -- The "Anti-milkhome zamlung" of 1937: the Yiddish anti-war catalogue reconsidered -- Conclusion: still waiting for the messiah.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-285) and index.
LCCN	2007036744
ISBN	9781592138722 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	1592138721 (cloth : alk. paper)

Messiahs of 1933 : how American Yiddish theatre survived adversity through satire / Joel Schechter.

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