Subject Guide: Performing Arts

American Jewish Historical Society:

In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture / Ted Merwin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway musical / Andrea Most. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2004.

The Process of Americanization as Reflected in the Posters of the American Yiddish Theater, 1899-1929 / Marc Noah Kramer. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University, 1992.

Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America / Andrea Most. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

American Sephardi Federation:

Argentine Jewish theatre: a critical anthology / edited and translated by Nora Glickman and Gloria F. Waldman. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 1996.

Jewish Theatrical Activities in Early Nineteenth Century Modern Arabic Theatre: Plays from Algeria and Syria: a study / Shmuel Moreh, Philip Sadgrove. Journal of Semitic Studies. Supplement 6, 1996.

Modern Ladino culture: press, belles lettres, and theater in the late Ottoman Empire / Olga Borovaya. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

Leo Baeck Institute:

Competing Germanies: Nazi, Antifascist, and Jewish Theater in German Argentina, 1933-1965 / Robert Kelz. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019.

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin / Rebecca Rovit. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2012.

Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre / edited by Jeanette R. Malkin and Freddie Rokem. Studies in Theatre History and Culture, 2010.

Wieviel Bart Darf Sein?: Jüdische Figuren im Skandinavischen Theater / Clemens Räthel. 2016.

YIVO:

Jews and Theatre in an Intercultural Context / edited by Edna Nahshon. Brill's Series in Jewish Studies v. 46. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.

Jews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers / Stewart F. Lane. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.

New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway / edited by Edna Nahshon. New York: Columbia University Press in association with the Museum of the City of New York, 2016.

The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater / Alyssa Quint. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019.

Second Avenue: The Yiddish Broadway / by Diane Cypkin. Michigan: UMI, 1986.

Yiddish Empire: the Vilna Troupe, Jewish theater, and the Art of Itinerancy / Debra Caplan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.