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While Yiddish theater is best known as popular entertainment, it has been shaped by its creators' responses to changing social and political conditions. Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage: Essays in Drama, Performance, and Show Business showcases the diversity of modern Yiddish theater by focusing on the relentless and far-ranging capacity of its performers, producers, critics, and audiences for self-invention. Editors Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry have assembled essays from leading scholars that trace the roots of modern Yiddish drama and performance in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe and span a century and a half and three continents, beyond the heyday of a Yiddish stage that was nearly eradicated by the Holocaust, to its post-war life in Western Europe and Israel.Each chapter takes its own distinct approach to its subject and is accompanied by an appendix consisting of primary material, much of it available in English translation for the first time, to enrich readers' appreciation of the issues explored and also to serve as supplementary classroom texts. Chapters explore Yiddish theater across a broad geographical span-from Poland and Russia to France, the United States, Argentina, and Israel and Palestine. Readers will spend time with notable individuals and troupes; meet creators, critics, and audiences; sample different dramatic genres; and learn about issues that preoccupied both artists and audiences. The final section presents an extensive bibliography of book-length works and scholarly articles on Yiddish drama and theater, the most comprehensive resource of its kind.Collectively these essays illuminate the modern Yiddish stage as a phenomenon that was constantly reinventing itself and simultaneously examining and questioning that very process. Scholars of Jewish performance and those interested in theater history will appreciate this wide-ranging volume.

Contributors explore the trauma, unexpected political gains, and moral ambiguities faced by Arab Detroiters in post-9/11 America.

Compelling historical snapshots of figures and episodes in Detroit history, from the familiar to the obscure and forgotten.

Examines the career of Israel Zangwill - author, journalist, ferminist, Zionist, and the first Jewish celebrity of the twentieth century. This book examines his career from its beginnings in the 1890s to the performance of his last play, ""We Moderns"", in 1924, to trace how Zangwill became the best-known Jewish writer in Britain and America.

Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield, the book is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns of English. The second edition of Let's Read brings Bloomfield's innovative program into the twenty-first century.

Examines the postwar Windsor slasher killings and the social consequences of the public paranoia that followed. This book tells the story of Windsor slasher, the social frenzy that his attacks created, and the surprising results that this hysteria generated.

Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. Roses and Revolutions brings together his most popular poems with his lesser-known short stories.

Explores the representation of war and its after effects in children's books and documentary films. This volume examines the influence of violence and war on children's literature by studying the childhood experiences of authors writing for children, the children represented in war stories, and experiences of children who make up the readership.

Presents contributions from prominent German film studies scholars to examine the current politically charged and provocative moment in German filmmaking historically, ideologically, and formally as another break with cinematic convention.

The Detroit area is home to several works of public art in its parks, libraries, schools, and hospitals. This guidebook considers over 150 pieces organized by section into six geographical districts of metropolitan Detroit. Each of these sections is accompanied by a street map for easy planning of walking or driving tours.

A biography of Detroit philanthropist Tracy McGregor and his wife, Katherine Whitney McGregor, that details their support of charities and social movements in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Offers a history of Bob-lo Island, a Canadian amusement park in the mouth of the Detroit River and a favorite recreation spot for generations of Detroit-area residents. This book recounts the phases of Bob-lo's history and its importance to natives of Detroit, Windsor, and Amherstburg.