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Subject Guide: Performing Arts

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

United States – New York. David Kessler's Second Avenue Theatre. Play, "Mener un froyen" by Solomon Libin, 1912. RG 8. YIVO Archives

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.