New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, Editor Edna Nahshon Yiddish Learning while the stunning illustrations interpret

while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature

Harold Prince

intellectuals

Based on stage play by Meyer Schwartz

At the turn of the twentieth century

New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, Editor Edna Nahshon Yiddish Learning while the stunning illustrations interpretIn the early decades of the twentieth century, a vibrant theatrical culture took shape on New York City's Lower East Side. Original dramas, comedies, musicals, and vaudeville, along with sophisticated productions of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov, were innovatively staged for crowds that rivaled the audiences on Broadway. Though these productions were in Yiddish and catered to Eastern European, Jewish audiences (the largest immigrant group in the