Landmark Yiddish Plays Douglas McPherson

Landmark Yiddish Plays Douglas McPhersonIntroduces readers to comic and tragic masterpieces spanning 150 years of Yiddish drama. Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel

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