Can I read New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway : featuring images from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on EtoBox?

New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway : featuring images from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research by Edna Nahshon (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway : featuring images from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research about?

Vividly illustrated and with contributions from leading historians and critics, this history recounts in absorbing detail the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and its vital contribution to American Jewish life and its crossover to American culture. The story of the Yiddish theater is therefore a tale of creativity and legacy, immigrants who in the process of becoming Americans had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic landscape. In the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the city at the time), their artistic innovations, energetic style, and engagement with politics and the world around them came to influence all facets of the American stage. Vividly illustrated and with essays from leading historians and critics, this book recounts the heyday of "Yiddish Broadway" and

Who reads New York's Yiddish theater : from the Bowery to Broadway : featuring images from the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research?

Author

Edna Nahshon (ed.)

Publisher

Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231176705

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, History, Sports

Rating

4.33 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14