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Theater, Yiddish --- Workers' theater --- Theater --- Théâtre yiddish --- Théâtre ouvrier --- Théâtre --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Artef --- History --- Théâtre yiddish --- Théâtre ouvrier --- Théâtre

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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the last two hundred years, many of the play's stage interpreters, spectators, readers and adapters have themselves been Jews, whose responses are often embedded in literary, theatrical and musical works. This volume examines the ever-expanding body of Jewish responses to Shakespeare's most Jewishly relevant play.

Jews in literature. --- Antisemitism in literature. --- WPI faculty authors. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Shylock --- Шейлок --- Sheĭlok --- Shakespeare, William --- Shakespear, William, --- Shakspeare, William, --- Šekʻspiri, Uiliam, --- Saixpēr, Gouilliam, --- Shakspere, William, --- Shikisbīr, Wilyam, --- Szekspir, Wiliam, --- Šekspyras, --- Shekspir, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- Šekspir, Viljem, --- Tsikinya-chaka, --- Sha-shih-pi-ya, --- Shashibiya, --- Sheḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Shaḳspir, Ṿilyam, --- Syeiksŭpʻio, --- Shekspir, V. --- Szekspir, William, --- Shakespeare, Guglielmo, --- Shake-speare, William, --- Sha-ō, --- Şekspir, --- Shekspir, Uiliam, --- Shekspir, U. --- Šekspir, Vilijam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Viliyam, --- Shakspir, --- Shekspyr, Vyli︠e︡m, --- Şekspir, Velyam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, Villiyam, --- Shēkʻspʻiyr, Vlilliam, --- Ṣēkspiyar, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākavi, --- Ṣēkspiyar Mahākaviya, --- Sheḳspier, Ṿilyam, --- Shēkʻspir, --- Shakespeare, --- Śeksper, --- Шекспир, Вильям, --- Шекспир, Уильям, --- שייקספיר, וויליאם, --- שייקספיר, וו., --- שיקספיר, וויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם --- שיקספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, ויליאם, --- שכספיר, וילים, --- שכספיר, ו׳ --- שעפקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, וויליאם --- שעקספיער, וויליאם, --- שעקספיער, ווילליאם --- שעקספיער, וו., --- שעקספיר --- שעקספיר, וו --- שעקספיר, וויליאם, --- שעקספיר, וויליאמ --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם --- שעקספיר, ווילליאם, --- שעקספיר, וו., --- שעקספיר, װיליאם, --- שעקספיר, װילליאם, --- שעקספיר, װ., --- שעקספער --- שעקספער, וויליאמ --- שקספיר --- שקספיר, וו --- שקספיר, וויליאם --- שקספיר, וויליאם, --- שקספיר, ווילים, --- שקספיר, וילאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם --- שקספיר, ויליאם, --- שקספיר, ויליים, --- שקספיר, וילים --- שקספיר, וילים, --- شاكسبير، وليم --- شاكسپير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليام --- شكسبير، وليم --- شكسبير، وليم، --- شكسبير، و. --- شكسپير، وليم --- شكسپير، ويليام --- شيكسبير، وليام --- شيكسبير، وليام.، --- شيكسبير، وليم --- شکسبير، وليم --- وليم شکسبير --- 沙士北亞威廉姆, --- 沙士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉姆, --- 莎士比亞威廉, --- 莎士比亞, --- Jacobson, Howard. --- Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario, --- Tchaikowsky, André, --- Harbison, John. --- Nystroem, Gösta, --- Characters --- Shylock. --- Jews. --- Worcester Polytechnic Institute --- W.P.I. --- Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. --- WPI --- Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial Science --- Faculty

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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 its vital contribution to American Jewish life and crossover to the broader American culture. These performances grappled with Jewish nationalism, labor relations, women's rights, religious observance, acculturation, and assimilation. They reflected a range of genres, from tear-jerkers to experimental theater. The artists who came of age in this world include Stella Adler, Eddie Cantor, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers. The story of New York's Yiddish theater is a tale of creativity and legacy and of immigrants who, in the process of becoming Americans, had an enormous impact on the country's cultural and artistic development.

Jewish theater --- Theater, Yiddish --- Yiddish theater --- Theater --- Theater, Hebrew --- Theater, Jewish --- Jewish entertainers --- History --- Jews --- Museum of the City of New York --- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research --- Museum of the City of New York. --- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. --- Art collections --- 1900-1999 --- New York (State) --- IVO-Institut evreĭskikh issledovaniĭ (Nʹi͡u-Ĭork) --- YIVO --- Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭu --- New York (City). --- New York (N.Y.). --- IVO-Institut evreĭskikh issledovaniĭ (Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork) --- ИВО Институт Еврейских Исследований --- יווא --- ייִדישער װיסנשאַפטלעכער אינסטיטוט --- יידישער וויסנשאפטלעכער אינסטיטוט ־ ייווא --- יידישער וויסענשאפטליכער אינסטיטוט --- ייווא --- ייווא אינסטיטוט פאר יידישער וויסענשאפט --- ייווא - יידישער וויסנשאפטלעכער אינסטיטוט --- ײדישער װיסנשאַפטלעכער אינסטיטו --- Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ --- New York (City)