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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Director’s Foreword
Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway
Act 1: Yiddish New York
Act 2: Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta
Act 3: Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer
Act 4: Pathbreakers and Superstars
Jacob P. Adler and the Formation of a Theatrical Dynasty
Boris Thomashefsky: Matinee Idol of the Yiddish Stage
Molly Picon: Darling of Second Avenue
Intermission
Act 5: Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement
Act 6: Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef
Act 7: Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design
Act 8: Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud
Act 9: Yiddish Vaudeville
Entertaining the Crowd
Early Yiddish Vaudeville in New York City
Act 10: Borscht Belt Entertainment
Act 11: Tevye’s Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon
Finale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage
Editor’s Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Photography Credits
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