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Subject Guide: Performing Arts

Highlighting dance, music, opera, and theater materials from Center and partner collections

Performance of "Mener un froyen" by Solomon Libin at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater in New York, 1912 (YIVO RG 8)

Library Highlights

Artists in exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts / Joseph Horowitz. 1st ed. New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2008.

The Collected Works of Harold Clurman: Six Decades of Commentary on Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Arts, and Letters / edited by Marjorie Loggia and Glenn Young; introduction by Robert Whitehead, 1994.

German-Speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain after 1933 / edited by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove. of Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Vol. 14, 2013.

Great Jews in the Performing Arts / Darryl Lyman. Middle Village, NY: J. David, 1999.

Jewhooing the Sixties: American Celebrity & Jewish Identity: Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand / David E. Kaufman. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2012.

Rainbow Jews: Jewish and Gay Identity in the Performing Arts / Jonathan C. Friedman. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

A Summer World: the Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.