Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction | Break a Leg! | 1 j e a n e t t e r . m a l k i n 2 Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience | 21 s t e v e n e . a s c h h e i m 3 How “Jewish” Was Theatre in Imperial Berlin? | 39 p e t e r j e l av i c h 4 Stagestruck | Jewish Attitudes to the Theatre in Wilhelmine Germany | 59 a n at f e i n b e rg 5 Yiddish Theatre and Its Impact on the German and Austrian Stage | 77 d e l p h i n e b e c h t e l 6 German and Jewish “Theatromania” | Theodor Lessing’s Theater-Seele between Goethe and Kafka | 99 b e r n h a r d g r e i n e r 7 Arnold Zweig and the Critics | Reconsidering the Jewish “Contribution” to German Theatre | 116 p e t e r w. m a r x Contents 8 Jewish Cabaret Artists before 1933 | 132 h a n s - p e t e r b ay e r d ö r f e r 9 Transforming in Public | Jewish Actors on the German Expressionist Stage | 151 j e a n e t t e r . m a l k i n 10 The Shaping of the Ostjude | Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin | 174 s h e l ly z e r- z i o n 11 Max Reinhardt between Yiddish Theatre and the Salzburg Festival | 197 l i s a s i lv e r m a n 12 Theatre as Festive Play | Max Reinhardt’s Productions of The Merchant of Venice | 219 e r i k a f i s c h e r- l i c h t e 13 The Unknown Leopold Jessner | German Theatre and Jewish Identity | 232 a n at f e i n b e rg 14 Epilogue | 261 f r e d d i e ro k e m Works Cited | 269 Contributors | 291 Index | 295 ...