Joel Berkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Berkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | BERKOWITZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Here In This Island We Arrived
Reviewed by: Here In This Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York by Elisabeth H. Kinsley Joel Berkowitz HERE IN THIS ISLAND WE ARRIVED: SHAKESPEARE AND BELONGING IN IMMIGRANT NEW YORK. By Elisabeth H. Kinsley. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019; pp. 216. Here in This Island We Arrived takes readers on a vivid tour of Shakespearean performances in New York City in the late 1800s and early 1900s, …
Jonathan M. Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters
The title character of Salomon Hermann Mosenthal’s melodrama Deborah made her first grand entrance in Hamburg in 1849, and became ubiquitous on stages worldwide for decades after that. Not long after fleeing an antisemitic mob, Deborah falls in love with a Christian man who ultimately forsakes her, prompting her to place an elaborate curse on him that casts a shadow over him for years. During that time, he and the wider Christian community evolve…
Yiddish Modernism
The Moscow Yiddish Theater
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage
Shtetl and Shtot in Yiddish Haskalah Drama
A Life on the Stage
Just past the middle of his memoirs, Jacob Adler describes a crisis that nearly ended his acting career. After three years of wandering through southern Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania with a traveling Yiddish theatre troupe, Adler has become a father, his company has disintegrated, and he returns to his native Odessa. His parents, who had never approved of his career, now expect that he will find more stable work, and this time, he tries to oblig…
The "Mendel Beilis Epidemic" on the Yiddish Stage
Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York's Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler's Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky's National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater. Earlier in the month, other versions of the headline-grabbing story ran at three of the smaller Yiddish theaters in New York, and the phenomenon was duplicated on a smaller…
The ?Mendel Beilis Epidemic? on the Yiddish Stage
Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York's Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler's Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky's National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater. Earlier in the month, other versions of the headline-grabbing story ran at three of the smaller Yiddish theaters in New York, and the phenomenon was duplicated on a smaller…
The Tallis or the Cross? Reviving Goldfaden at the Yiddish Art Theatre, 1924-26
Dans les annees 1920, le theâtre yiddish a redecouvert ses racines en la personne du premier dramaturge yiddish professionnel, Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908), dont les pieces furent modernisees pour etre au gout du jour. Le present article aborde la naissance du theâtre classique yiddish et etudie comment le Theâtre de l'Art yiddish avec Maurice Schwartz, traite, en 1924, les pieces de Goldfaden, et leur permet d'etre accueillies et appreciees par l…
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre
Black Heroes
(Applause Books). Collected here for the first time are plays many of which have been unavailable for decades which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. Includes: Emperor of Haiti by Langston Hughes; Nat Turner by Randolph Edmonds; In Splendid Error by William Branch; Harriet Tubman by May Miller; Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean; I, Marcus Garvey by Edgar…
Dangerous Theatre
The ?Mendel Beilis Epidemic? on the Yiddish Stage
Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York's Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler's Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky's National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater. Earlier in the month, other versions of the headline-grabbing story ran at three of the smaller Yiddish theaters in New York, and the phenomenon was duplicated on a smaller…
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre
Yiddish Modernism
Black Heroes
(Applause Books). Collected here for the first time are plays many of which have been unavailable for decades which pronounce a black American struggle for freedom, advancement and equality from the days of slavery to the era of civil rights. Includes: Emperor of Haiti by Langston Hughes; Nat Turner by Randolph Edmonds; In Splendid Error by William Branch; Harriet Tubman by May Miller; Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean; I, Marcus Garvey by Edgar…
Dangerous Theatre
The Tallis or the Cross? Reviving Goldfaden at the Yiddish Art Theatre, 1924-26
Dans les annees 1920, le theâtre yiddish a redecouvert ses racines en la personne du premier dramaturge yiddish professionnel, Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908), dont les pieces furent modernisees pour etre au gout du jour. Le present article aborde la naissance du theâtre classique yiddish et etudie comment le Theâtre de l'Art yiddish avec Maurice Schwartz, traite, en 1924, les pieces de Goldfaden, et leur permet d'etre accueillies et appreciees par l…
Yiddish Proletarian Theatre
The "Mendel Beilis Epidemic" on the Yiddish Stage
Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York's Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler's Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky's National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater. Earlier in the month, other versions of the headline-grabbing story ran at three of the smaller Yiddish theaters in New York, and the phenomenon was duplicated on a smaller…
The ?Mendel Beilis Epidemic? on the Yiddish Stage
Anyone wanting to see the major stars of New York's Yiddish stage on Thanksgiving weekend in 1913 had three choices: Mendel Beilis at Jacob Adler's Dewey Theater, Mendel Beilis at Boris Thomashefsky's National Theater, or Mendel Beilis at David Kessler's Second Avenue Theater. Earlier in the month, other versions of the headline-grabbing story ran at three of the smaller Yiddish theaters in New York, and the phenomenon was duplicated on a smaller…
A Life on the Stage
Just past the middle of his memoirs, Jacob Adler describes a crisis that nearly ended his acting career. After three years of wandering through southern Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania with a traveling Yiddish theatre troupe, Adler has become a father, his company has disintegrated, and he returns to his native Odessa. His parents, who had never approved of his career, now expect that he will find more stable work, and this time, he tries to oblig…
Shtetl and Shtot in Yiddish Haskalah Drama
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage
The Moscow Yiddish Theater
Yiddish Modernism
Jonathan M. Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters
The title character of Salomon Hermann Mosenthal’s melodrama Deborah made her first grand entrance in Hamburg in 1849, and became ubiquitous on stages worldwide for decades after that. Not long after fleeing an antisemitic mob, Deborah falls in love with a Christian man who ultimately forsakes her, prompting her to place an elaborate curse on him that casts a shadow over him for years. During that time, he and the wider Christian community evolve…
Here In This Island We Arrived
Reviewed by: Here In This Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York by Elisabeth H. Kinsley Joel Berkowitz HERE IN THIS ISLAND WE ARRIVED: SHAKESPEARE AND BELONGING IN IMMIGRANT NEW YORK. By Elisabeth H. Kinsley. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019; pp. 216. Here in This Island We Arrived takes readers on a vivid tour of Shakespearean performances in New York City in the late 1800s and early 1900s, …
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