Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre (Studies Theatre History & Culture)

Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10
1. Introduction | Break a Leg!......Page 14
2. Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience......Page 34
3. How “Jewish” Was Theatre in Imperial Berlin?......Page 52
4. Stagestruck | Jewish Attitudes to the Theatre in Wilhelmine Germany......Page 72
5. Yiddish Theatre and Its Impact on the German and Austrian Stage......Page 90
6. German and Jewish “Theatromania” | Theodor Lessing’s Theater-Seele between Goethe and Kafka......Page 112
7. Arnold Zweig and the Critics | Reconsidering the Jewish “Contribution” to German Theatre......Page 129
8. Jewish Cabaret Artists before 1933......Page 145
9. Transforming in Public | Jewish Actors on the German Expressionist Stage......Page 164
10. The Shaping of the Ostjude | Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin......Page 187
11. Max Reinhardt between Yiddish Theatre and the Salzburg Festival......Page 210
12. Theatre as Festive Play | Max Reinhardt’s Productions of The Merchant of Venice......Page 232
13. The Unknown Leopold Jessner | German Theatre and Jewish Identity......Page 245
14. Epilogue......Page 274
Works Cited......Page 282
Contributors......Page 304
Index......Page 308