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

SUSAN HENSHAW JONES

Director’s Foreword

EDNA NAHSHON

Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway

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HASIA DINER

Yiddish New York

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NAHMHA SANDROW

Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta

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BARBARA HENRY

Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer

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Pathbreakers and Superstars

Jacob P. Adler and the Formation of a Theatrical Dynasty
By Edna Nahshon

Boris Thomashefsky: Matinee Idol of the Yiddish Stage
By Stefanie Halpern

Molly Picon: Darling of Second Avenue
By Joshua S. Walden

Intermission

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EDNA NAHSHON

Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement

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EDNA NAHSHON

Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef

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ARNOLD ARONSON

Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design

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EDDY PORTNOY

Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud

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Yiddish Vaudeville

Entertaining the Crowd
By Edna Nahshon

Early Yiddish Vaudeville in New York City
By Judith Thissen

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EDNA NAHSHON

Borscht Belt Entertainment

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ALISA SOLOMON

Tevye’s Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon

FINALE: A GALLERY OF STARS OF THE AMERICAN YIDDISH STAGE

By Stefanie Halpern and Edna Nahshon

EDITOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY