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Author	Harshav, Benjamin, 1928-
Title	The Moscow Yiddish theater : art on stage in the time of revolution / Benjamin Harshav ; documents translated by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav.
Publication Info.	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 12	792.0947 H	IN LIBRARY

Description	xiii, 199 p., [31] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198).
Contents	The Yiddish art theater -- Chagall's theater murals -- The quarrel between art and theater -- The program of the Yiddish Chamber Theater on its opening in July 1919 -- The reception of the Moscow Yiddish Theater in the West -- The Moscow Yiddish Academic Theater (1928) -- Aesthetics and the lost Jewish world -- Theater and revolution -- Sholem-Aleichem-two short pieces.
Note	Includes translations into English from German, Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish.
Subject	Moskovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ evreĭskiĭ teatr -- History.
	Theater, Yiddish -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 20th century.
Added Author	Harshav, Benjamin, 1928- translator.
	Harshav, Barbara, 1940- translator.
Added Title	Art on stage in the time of revolution
ISBN	9780300115130 (alk. paper)
	030011513X (alk. paper)

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