New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, Editor Edna Nahshon Yiddish Learning ethnographers

ethnographers

85 minutes

Based on stage play by Meyer Schwartz

12 Audio CDs Read by Stefan Rudnicki 17

New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, Editor Edna Nahshon Yiddish Learning ethnographersIn the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the