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A little over a hundred years ago, the first production of
An-sky’s The Dybbuk opened in Warsaw. In the century that
followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range
of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless
Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go
on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern
theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century
collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who
explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and
offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The
collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater
practitioners, as well as general readers.
Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish
performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation,
providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage.
During World War I, a motley group of teenaged amateurs,
impoverished war refugees, and out- of- work Russian actors banded
together to revolutionize the Yiddish stage. Achieving a most
unlikely success through their productions, the Vilna Troupe (1915-
36) would eventually go on to earn the attention of theatergoers
around the world. Advancements in modern transportation allowed
Yiddish theater artists to reach global audiences, traversing not
only cities and districts but also countries and continents. The
Vilna Troupe routinely performed in major venues that had never
before allowed Jews, let alone Yiddish, upon their stages, and
operated across a vast territory, a strategy that enabled them to
attract unusually diverse audiences to the Yiddish stage and a
precursor to the organizational structures and travel patterns that
we see now in contemporary theater. Debra Caplan's history of the
Troupe is rigorously researched, employing primary and secondary
sources in multiple languages, and is engagingly written.
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