The "Mendel Beilis Epidemic" on the Yiddish Stage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3005293 |
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| Authors | Joel Berkowitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 199-225 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jss.2001.0018 |
| OpenAlex | W4214712385 |
| Language | EN |
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 scale in a number of other North American and European cities
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Headline · Judaism · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Yiddish · American Sports and Literature · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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