The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution - Rilegato

Harshav, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 030011513X ISBN 13: 9780300115130

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

?The tasks of world theater serve us as the tasks of our theater, and only language distinguishes us from others.”?A. Granovsky, first director, GOSET

 

The Moscow Yiddish Theater (later called GOSET) was born in 1919 and almost immediately became one of the most remarkable avant-garde theaters in Europe. It flourished in the 1920s but under Bolshevik pressure soon lost much of the originality that had distinguished it. In 1948 Stalin’s henchmen slaughtered GOSET’s legendary actor and director Solomon Mikhoels, and the theater was liquidated. This book focuses not on how the theater was persecuted but on its ambitious beginnings as a revolutionary organization of passionate artistic exploration.

 

The book brings to English readers for the first time selected writings that reflect the aesthetics and politics of the Yiddish revolutionary theater. The book also incorporates miraculously salvaged images of Marc Chagall’s famous theater murals, as well as paintings of costumes and stage sets created by the best artists of the day. These illustrations, discovered only after the fall of the Soviet Union, have never been published before. With emphasis on the theater’s early achievements and its centrality in Moscow’s burgeoning theater world, the book makes a major contribution to the understanding of modern Jewish culture and the art of theater.

 

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Benjamin Harshav is professor of comparative literature, J. & H. Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, and professor of Slavic languages and literatures, Yale University. He has published widely on Marc Chagall, Yiddish and Hebrew poetry, and literary theory, and in 2005 he was awarded the Emet Prize, the highest prize given in Israel for achievements in art, science, and culture. Barbara Harshav is a prolific translator from French, German, Hebrew, and Yiddish and teaches translation at Yale University. The Harshavs live in New Haven, CT.

Product Description:

Book by Harshav Professor Benjamin

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 030011513X
• ISBN 13: 9780300115130
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 198