Index
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Adler, Jacob P., 12, 18, 20-21, 22, 23, 28, 30, 31, 90, 93, 104-16, 105, 108-09, 248, 279, 286, 290, 309
Adler, Celia, 110, 112, 113, 115, 155
Adler, Luther, 110, 112, 117, 190, 296
Adler, Sarah, 110, 113, 117, 304
Adler, Stella, 32, 46, 112, 114, 116, 117, 181, 190
Aleichem, Sholem. See Sholem Aleichem
Alexander, Crown Prince of Jerusalem, 70
The Andrews Sisters, 42
Ansky, S., 48, 96, 158, 196
Aristocrats, 184-85, 186, 292
Aronson, Boris, 25, 37, 38, 158-60, 162-63, 169, 170-71, 196, 197, 200, 201, 202-14, 203, 204-05, 207, 209-13, 215, 220-21, 284-85, 287-89, 296, 297
Artef, 22, 38, 48, 158, 162-63, 176-90, 177, 179, 181, 183, 184-85, 187, 191, 292, 295, 319(6n4)
Asch, Sholem, 41
At the Gate (Baym toyer), 177, 180
Atkinson, Brooks, 166, 182, 186
Atlantic Garden Theatre, 14, 244
Awake and Sing!, 40, 112, 116, 181, 208
Bagels and Yox, 269, 270, 274
Baker, Belle, 69, 126, 250-52, 251
Bar Kokhba, 17, 68, 312
The Beggar of Odessa, 106
“Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” 40
Bern, Mina, 71, 304, 304
Ben-Ami, Jacob, 36, 110, 153, 154, 155, 156, 304, 304
The Big Win, 200,000, or The Big Winner (Dos groyse gevins), 186, 187, 292, 295
blackface, 83, 139, 241
Borscht Belt, 44, 258-74, 294
Borscht Capades, 273, 274
Bowery, 12, 15, 18, 32, 33, 34, 248, 254
Bowery Garden, 24, 26
Broadway 12, 36, 37, 40, 42, 46, 82, 83, 97, 106, 110, 112, 124, 126, 130, 139, 160, 182, 190, 198, 200, 208, 214, 220, 221, 254, 266, 273, 274, 292, 294, 296, 298, 300, 301, 302-03, 304-13
Broder Singers, 66, 68
Broken Hearts, 106
Bronx Express, 158, 206, 208, 209, 216, 313
Brooks, Mel, 44, 262
The Brothers Ashkenazi (Di brider Ashkenazi), 38, 153, 214, 296
Brustein, Robert, 44
Buloff, Joseph, 71, 112, 173, 305, 305
Burstein, Pesach, 46, 62, 71, 306-07, 306
Caesar, Sid, 44
Café Crown, 37, 215
Café Royal, 37, 37, 255
Cantor, Eddie, 268, 275
Cantorial music, 66, 68, 73, 82
cantors, 66, 70, 73, 82, 310, 311
Carnovsky, Morris, 37
Casa Valentina, 274
Catch Me If You Can, 274
Catskills, 40, 123, 233, 258-74, 259, 312
Brickman Hotel, 266, 268
Concord Resort Hotel, 260, 263, 272
Flagler Hotel, 266
Kutsher’s Hotel, 272
Nevele Country Club, 260, 264
Paul’s Hotel, 266
White Roe Lake Hotel, 265, 266
Catskills on Broadway, 274
Chinese theater, 18
Circus Girl, 132, 134, 135, 136-37
Clurman, Harold, 10, 116
Condell, Heinz A., 216-17, 218, 219
Conversations with My Father, 44
Crossdressing, 49, 49, 134, 138, 173, 274
Das pintele yid (The Essential Spark of Jewishness), 122, 125
Dassin, Jules, 22, 112, 180, 190
Day and Night (Tog un nakht), 158, 159, 196, 197, 206, 207
daytshmerish, 30, 88, 228
Didjah, Belle, 211, 273, 306, 306
Dirty Dancing, 274
“Donna, Donna,” 24
The Dybbuk, 46, 110, 186, 228, 229, 230, 236, 237, 304
Dymow, Osip, 38, 110, 158, 209
“Eli, Eli”, 69, 251
Ellstein, Abraham, 130
English-language stage, 16, 22, 29, 32, 46, 88, 118, 176, 182, 190, 196, 208, 214, 218
Epstein, Jacob, 13
The Family Carnovsky, 166, 218
Fiddler on the Roof, 42, 112, 128, 208, 214, 278, 284-85, 287, 288-89, 296, 297, 298-99, 300, 301, 302-03
The Fifth Season, 42, 312
The Final Balance, 158, 159, 206, 207
The Flagler Scandals of 1929, 266
Folksbiene/National Yiddish Theater, 44, 168, 322n19
A Forsaken Nook (Farvorfn vinkel), 154, 304
Forward (daily), 35, 56, 58, 118, 225, 230, 252, 254, 319(6n2); building, 57
Friedsell, Louis, 66
Garden Theatre, 156, 198
The Gardener’s Dog, 157, 199, 200
Garment industry, 42, 56, 58, 59; strikes, 155, 190
German-language theater, 18, 22, 317
Gersten, Berta, 99, 101, 127, 153, 306, 306
God, Man, and Devil (Got, mentsh un tayvl), 30, 92, 94, 96, 101, 212, 214, 306, 308
God of Vengeance, 36, 39, 41, 46, 308, 312-13
Golden Boy, 112, 116, 267, 268
The Golden Bride (Di goldene kale), 80
Goldfaden, Abraham, 22, 24, 26, 33, 49, 68-70, 71, 310, 317n6
Goldstein, Jennie, 38, 101, 307, 307
Gordin, Jacob, 19, 30, 86-101, 87, 89, 91, 104, 248, 308, 310
Gorelik, Mordecai, 212-13, 214, 220, 319(7n18)
Grand Theatre, 14, 15, 32, 43, 45, 75, 107
Grossinger, Jennie, 40, 260, 268
Grossinger’s (Grossinger Hotel and Country Club), 260, 264, 266-67, 272
Group Theatre, 10, 40, 112, 116, 176, 190, 192, 200, 208, 268
Hapgood, Hutchins, 13, 16
Hard to Be a Jew, 280-81, 292
Hart, Moss, 266, 275
Having Wonderful Time, 274
Hebrew Actors’ Union, 23, 23, 32, 39, 180, 240, 311
Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society (HEAS), 24, 317(n14)
Hirschbein, Peretz, 154, 156, 304
Holiday Theatre, 269, 270
Homeless (On a heym), 92, 107, 114
Hurwitz, Moshe, 26, 28, 70, 72, 250
Idelsohn, Abraham Z., 68
The Idle Inn, 155, 156, 198, 304
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU), 58, 189, 190
Irving Place Theatre, 22, 75, 152, 155, 156, 196
jazz, 80-83
The Jazz Singer, 82, 83
Jessel, George, 83, 268
Jewish Art Theatre, 38, 110, 155, 156, 159, 198, 304, 318(5n3)
The Jewish Heart (Dos yidishe harts), 26, 72, 74, 77, 80, 308
The Jewish King Lear (Der yidisher kenig Lir), 10, 12, 15, 30, 37, 90, 92, 93, 104
Jim Kooperkop, 158, 162-63
The Jolly Orphan, 129, 132
Jolson, Al, 82, 83
Kalich, Bertha, 30, 97, 308-09, 308
Kalich, Jacob, 22, 130
Kaye, Danny, 265, 266, 267, 269
Kessler, David, 28, 34, 66, 152, 309-10, 309
King Solomon, 17, 28
Kohansky, Alexander S., 45
The Komediant, 48, 306
Kol Nidre, 17, 82
Kressyn, Miriam, 71, 310, 310, 316
The Kreutzer Sonata (Di Kreyster sonata), 30, 86, 90, 92, 97, 307, 313
Kushner, Tony, 48
Lateiner, Joseph, 26, 28, 70, 72, 242
Liptzin, Keni, 30, 92, 98, 309-10, 309
Lebedeff (Lebedev), Aaron, 35, 44, 67, 309, 309
Leivick, H., 156, 180
Leve, Sam, 42, 191
Lewis, Jerry, 233, 259
Libin, Zalmen, 106, 154
Lower East Side, 12, 16, 24, 32, 34, 37, 48, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 124, 228, 242, 248, 317(n6)
Lux, Lillian, 46, 62, 305-06, 305
Maiori, Antonio, 18
Mazel Tov, Molly, 133, 218, 219
Margulies, Donald, 41, 46
melodrama, 26, 28, 30, 45, 70, 72, 80, 106, 242, 244, 266, 307
The Merchant of Venice, 18, 104, 108-09, 166, 168, 312-13
Miller, Arthur, 40
The Miracle of the Warsaw Ghetto, 219
Mirele Efros (Di yidishe kenigen Lir oder Mirele Efros), 30, 87, 90, 98-99, 101, 306, 310
Mogulesko, Sigmund, 30, 49, 49, 66, 88, 308, 313-14, 313
Morrison, Morris (Moritz), 18, 317(n10)
Mostel, Zero, 112, 296, 298-99, 301
Muni, Paul, 130, 310-11, 310
“My Yiddishe Mama”, 241
National Theatre, 13, 34, 35, 73, 74, 110, 279, 311
Ochs, Michael, 80
Odets, Clifford, 40, 190
operetta, 22, 24, 26, 28, 33, 35, 45, 49, 67, 68-70, 72, 78, 80, 92, 118, 122, 158, 244, 250, 316, 318
Oppenheim, Tom, 46, 116
Oriental Theatre, 26, 28
The Orphans, 24
Othello, 16, 18, 122
patriotn, 12
Peer Gynt, 70
People’s Theatre, 10, 12, 18, 29, 31, 77, 119, 248, 286, 318
Perl, Arnold, 294
Picon, Molly, 22, 38, 49, 49, 71, 128-39, 129, 131, 135, 136-37, 139, 219
Pins and Needles, 58, 186, 188-89
Pinski, David, 96, 156
Potash and Perlmutter, 36, 312
Praeger, Regina, 17
The Price, 44, 305
Public Theatre, 34, 74
Purim, 66, 228
The Rabbi’s Temptation, 67
Racov, Nakhum, 16
ragtime, 80, 241, 242
Recruits, 182, 183, 186, 214
Red, Yellow, and Black, 158
Regan, Sylvia, 42
Reinhardt, Max, 22, 156, 218, 312
revue, 45, 146, 186, 188-89, 208, 244, 261, 266, 269, 270-71, 273, 274
Rexite, Seymour, 71, 308, 311, 311
Rischin, Moses, 12
The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), 52, 317(1n1)
Roman, Freddie, 274
Romanian Opera Company, 26, 28, 310
Romeo and Juliet, 16, 202
Rosten, Leo, 258, 262
Rozanko, Vera, 78
Rumshinsky, Joseph, 66, 68, 82, 134
Russian Yiddish Opera Company (Karp–Silberman Company), 26, 33
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Akedas Yitkhok), 70
satire, 177, 184, 228, 230
Satz, Ludwig, 36, 75, 249, 311-12, 312
Schildkraut, Rudolph, 18, 22, 36, 38, 41, 126, 156, 158, 20, 209, 214, 312-13, 312
Schneider, Benno, 162, 179, 183, 184, 186-87, 191
Schwartz, Maurice, 22, 32, 34, 38, 110, 116, 152-72, 153, 161, 167, 173, 196, 200, 206, 208, 214, 290, 291, 292, 293, 296, 305, 306, 309
Second Avenue, theater district, 23, 32, 34, 37, 130, 312
Second Avenue Theatre, 23, 34, 131, 132, 136-37, 139, 308
Secunda, Sholom, 10, 24, 40, 66, 255, 274
A Serious Man, 46
Shaikevitch (Schomer), Nokhem Meyer, 72, 86
Shakespeare, William, 16, 18, 90, 104, 122, 312
Shulamith, 24, 33, 68
Sholem Aleichem, 278-98, 283
Show Boat, 81, 266, 267
Shylock, 18, 104, 106, 108-09, 166, 167, 317
Shylock and His Daughter, 166, 167
Siberia, 30, 90, 104, 308
Simon, Mae, 243, 244, 245, 253
Sinatra, Frank, 43, 128
Singer, I.J., 38, 160, 166, 218
Skulnik, Menasha, 38, 42, 43, 130, 318, 318
Solomon’s Trial, 28
Solotaroff, Moi, 177, 179, 183, 184, 187, 214
Soudeikin, Serge, 157, 199, 200
The Spirit of the Ghetto, 13
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 112, 116, 152, 186
The Tenth Commandment, 38, 158, 169, 170-71, 173, 201, 202, 203, 206, 210
Terrace Garden Theater (Lexington Avenue Opera House), 33, 33
Tevya, 291, 293
Tevya and His Daughters, 294
Tevye the Milkman (Tevye der milkhiker), 290; character, 282; film version, 292
Thalia Theatre, 12, 15, 16, 17, 29, 41, 53, 308, 309, 312
Thomashefsky, Bessie, 77, 312, 318
Thomashefsky, Boris, 18, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31, 34, 44, 66, 69, 81, 88, 110, 118-27, 127, 248, 279, 286, 310, 311, 317
Three Little Businessmen, 124, 126
Tolstoy, Leo, 32, 92, 110, 317
Tucker, Sophie, 126, 241, 268
tummler, 229, 262
Turn Hall, 24
The Two Kuni-Lemls, 24, 68
Uriel Acosta, 186, 191, 317(n10)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 16, 29, 29
Unser Teater, 38, 156, 158, 159, 196, 197, 201, 202, 204-05, 206, 207, 221
The Valiant, 314
Valliere, Jennie, 22
vaudeville, 40, 44, 49, 240-55, 246, 324n1
Vega, Lope de, 157, 160, 199, 200
Vogel, Paula, 48
Wallach, Eli, 37
Windsor Theatre, 12, 16, 18, 26, 93, 189, 250, 308
The Witch (Di Kishufmakherin), 24, 49, 68, 70
Wohl, Herman, 66
Yankele, 49, 131, 132
Yiddish Art Theatre, 11, 23, 24, 34, 45, 94-95, 110, 116, 152-173, 196, 199, 201, 202, 206, 210, 212-13, 214, 215-16, 218, 224, 280-81, 290, 292, 296, 304, 305, 306, 310, 318(5n7), 319(7n13)
Yiddish art theater movement, 38, 110, 152-69, 198, 218, 304
Yiddish Folks Theatre, 74, 101, 219
Yidl mitn fidl, 49, 130, 134
Yinglish, 40, 233, 258, 269
Yoshe Kalb, 38, 45, 160, 161, 164-65, 166, 186, 200
Zangwill, Israel, 13
Zeifert, Moshe, 16, 122
Zolotarevsky, Isidore, 29