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Subject Guide: Performing Arts

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

Yiddish theater poster for "Day and Night" at Glickman's Palace Theatre. YIVO Archives.

Theatre Library Highlights

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:

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

Leo Baeck Institute:

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

לעקסיקאן פון יידישן טעאטער [Leḳsiḳon fun Yidishn ṭeaṭer] / maṭerialn gezamlṭ un redaḳṭirṭ fun Zalmen Zilbertsṿeyg, bay der nonṭsṭer miṭarbeṭ fun Yaʻaḳov Mesṭel; aroysgegebn unṭer der hashgoḥeh fun der Yidisher Aḳṭiorn-Yunye in Ameriḳe. Nyu-Yorḳ Farlag Elishevaʻ, 1931.

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.

Yeshiva University Museum

Principles of Theatre Art / H.D. Albright, William P. Halstead [and] Lee Mitchell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors' Union / Curator Krysia Fisher; text Edna Nahshon. New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2009.

Demolished old buildings at southeast corner East Houston and Essex Streets... I-7. AJHS

Man looks at large broadsides advertising performances at the Lyric Theater, the only thing standing in a pile of remains of demolished buildings.