Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context

Abstract

Religion and origins 1. The Biblical Balaam 'Play' and its Stage Design in Pictures: A Religious Satire? Shimon Levy 2. From Alexandria to Berlin: The Hellenistic Play Exagoge Joins the Jewish Canon Sarit Cofman-Simhon 3. The Passion of Tafi del Valle: The Representation of Jews in an Argentinean Passion Play Tamara Kohn 4. Going Against the Grain: Jews and Passion Plays in America, 1879-1929 Edna Nahshon Plays and Playwrights 5. Conceptions, Connotations, and /or actions: How to Present Jewish Characters on the German Post-War Stage - The example of Heinar Kipphardt's Plays Matthias Naumann 6. Between I and Thou: Buber, Expressionism and Ernst Toller's Search for Community David Garfinkle 7. Holocaust Memory in the French-Jewish theater of Jean-Claude Grumberg Seth L. Wolitz Holocaust 8. Voices from the Edge of the Abyss: Theatrical texts from the Terezin Ghetto Lisa Peschel 9. Jewishness in American Documentary Theatre Carol Martin 10. Fritz Kortner on the Postwar Stage: The Jewish Actor as a Site of Memory Michael Bachman Interpretations and reinterpretations 11. Jews in Fashion at the Moscow Art Theatre Laurence Senelick 12. Restaging Halevy's Opera The Jewess Hans-Peter Bayerdoerfer 13. Contemporary Audiences, Shylock, and the Infamous 'Pound of Flesh' in The Merchant of Venice Melia Bensussan The Contemporary Scene 14. The Joy of Breaking Taboos: Jews in Postwar German Theatre Anat Feinberg 15. From Merchant of Venice to Mein Kampf: The Representation of Anti-Semitism and its Reception by Jewish and Gentile Audiences in Contemporary Hungary Aniko Szucs 16. From Purimspiel to Polish Masquerade Brigitte Sion 17. Jewface Minstrelsy and Jewfacade Display: Performing Jewish Cultural Memory in Contemporary Europe and Eurasia S.I. Salamensky 18. Hadassah and Halacha: the Interventions of Queer Jewish Performance Art Carol Zemel Appendix: Mama's Coming Back, Poor Orphan [A Song] A play by Jean-Claude Grumberg, Translated by Seth Wolitz