Table of Contents:
  • Writing the history of the Yiddish theatre / Joel Berkowitz
  • The 'low' culture of the Purimshpil / Ahuva Belkin
  • Romanticism and the Yiddish theatre / Nahma Sandrow
  • Jewish plays on the Russian stage: Moscow and St Petersburg, 1905-1917 / Barbara Henry
  • The text of Goldfaden's Di kishefmakherin and the operetta tradition / Paola Bertolone
  • Shulamis and Bar kokhba: renewed Jewish role models in Goldfaden and Halkin / Seth L. Wolitz
  • Yiddish theatre in Vienna, 1880-1938 / Brigitte Dalinger
  • Stories in song: the Melo-deklamatsyes of Joseph Markovitsh / David Mazower
  • From Goldfaden to Goldfaden in Cracow's Jewish theatres / Mirosława M. Bułwat
  • 'Exit, pursued by a bear': Russian administrators and the ban on Yiddish theatre in Imperial Russia / John Klier
  • The censorship of Sholem Asch' Got fun nekome, London, 1946 / Leonard Prager
  • The child who wouldn't grow up: Yiddish theatre and its critics / Nina Warnke.