New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway

by Edna Nashon, Museum of the City of New York (NY-USA), Museum of the City of New York

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231176708
• ISBN13: 9780231176705
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher