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Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925-1940: Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Autor Edna Nahshon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 aug 1998 – vârsta până la 17 ani
The Artef (1925-1940) began as a radical Yiddish workers' theatre and developed into a major American Yiddish theatre company. It was among the acknowledged pillars of the Theatre of Social Consciousness, a movement that redefined the course for the American stage during the half century that followed.In the 1920s and 1930s, New York was widely recognized as the world capital of the Yiddish theatre. The Artef was a principal theatrical institution during this so-called Golden Era. Established in 1925 as a proletarian theatrical organization affiliated with the Jewish section of the American communist movement, the Artef was hailed by Brooks Atkinson as one of the artistic ornaments in town. In 1934 the Artef moved to Broadway, where it continued to perform until its demise in 1940.This work examines the history of Artef and analyzes the artistic, ideological, and organizational aspects of its work. The company's major productions are discussed, with a focus on the central issues raised by script, direction, and acting. The book attempts to demonstrate that radical politics often shaped and determined the evolution of the theatre, and that its artistic and organizational life must be seen within the context of the political and cultural movement of which it was a part. The work is divided into three major segments: Chapters I-IV discuss the ideological, social, and cultural forces that gave rise to the Artef, the crystallization of the organization, and the work of its acting studio, which in 1928 became the acting collective of the Artef; Chapters V-VIII cover the period of 1929-1934, the formative years of the Artef and their correspondence to communist Third Period doctrine; Chapters IX-XIII are devoted to the theatre's successful Broadway period, which paralleled the Communist Party's liberal Popular Front era. The last chapter discusses the efforts to revive the Artef, and its inevitable demise following the 1939 German-Russian Nonaggression Pact. This is a major work in Jewish Theatre Studies that will be of great use to scholars and other researchers involved with Jewish and Performance Theatre Studies as well as the history of the American Left.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313290633
ISBN-10: 0313290636
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

EDNA NAHSHON, on the faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, has recently been appointed a Visiting Skirball Fellow at Oxford University. She specializes in the field of Jewish performance studies and has written extensively on Yiddish theatre. Her work has appeared in, among other places, American National Biography, The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, Jewish American History, and Di Froyen: Women and Yiddish.

Cuprins

Foreword by Jules DassinPrefaceFrom Socialism to CommunismToward a Jewish Workers' TheatreThe StudioEarly ProductionsThe Rise and Fall of the Permanent TheatreFacing AmericaRussian ImportsFrom American Documentary to Socialist RealismVictory on BroadwayToward a Professional TheatreThe Days of the Popular FrontAt the Daly Theatre, 1937-38Resurrection and DemiseAppendixBibliographyIndex