| Description |
viii, 278 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Jewish literature and culture |
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Jewish literature and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Yiddish origins and Jewish-American transformations / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Yiddish theater and American theater / Nahma Sandrow -- Some intersections of Jews, music, and theater / Mark Slobin -- Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker : blending the particular with the universal / June Sochen -- Jew in stand-up comedy / Anthony Lewis -- Elmer Rice, liberation, and the great ethnic question / Jules Chametzky -- Clifford Odets and the Jewish context / R. Barid Shuman -- Lillian Hellman : the first Jewish nun on Prytania Street / Bonnie Lyons -- Ethnics and ethnicity in the plays of Arthur Miller / Enoch Brater -- Paddy Chayefsky's Jews and Jewish dialogues / Leslie Field -- Neil Simon's Jewish-style comedies / Daniel Walden -- Jules Feiffer and the comedy of disenchantment / Stephen J. Whitfield -- "Mental comedies" of Saul Bellow / Keith Opdahl -- Jewish folk drama of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Sarah Blacher Cohen -- Americanization of the Holocaust on stage and screen / Lawrence L. Langer -- Woody Allen : the failure of the therapeutic / Mark Shechner -- Mel Brooks and the cinema of exhaustion / Sanford Pinsker -- Vanishing act : a typology of the Jew in the contemporary American film / Alan Spiegal. |
| Subject |
Jewish theater -- United States.
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American drama -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.
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Jews in motion pictures.
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Jews in literature.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Sarah Blacher.
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| Added Title |
Jewish-American stage and screen.
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| ISBN |
0253325005 |
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