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Instructors: Dr. Claudia Görg
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Jewish American Drama has been a prominent form of Jewish self-expression ever since the great wave of Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century. At first, the Yiddish theater helped the immigrants to preserve their culture and language. Going to the theater, where the immigrants met their landsleit and where they learned to understand life in the new world as well, was part of Jewish community life.
In the following years, a new generation of American-born playwrights wrote dramas in English. A number of them were writers and musicians, who composed the lyrics and the music for numersous shows and musicals, e.g. George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Among the best-known contemporary American playwrights are Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Wendy Wasserstein. This course will introduce students to Jewish plays that address a variety of issues, such as Jewish identity, the Holocaust, Israel, Jewish women, and Jewish lesbian women.
Merle Feld, Across the Jordan (1995)
Bryan Fogel and Sam Wolfson, Jewtopia (2003)
William Gibson, Golda's Balcony (2003)
Joshua Harmon, Bad Jews (2013)
Barbara Kahn, Whither Thou Goest (1995)
Barbara Lebow, A Shayna Maidel (1988)
David Mamet, The Old Neighborhood (1997)
Arthur Miller, Playing for Time (1985)
Arthur Miller, Broken Glass (1994)
Wendy Waaserstein, Isn't It Romantic? (1983)
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
Recommended reading list:
Julius Novick. ?Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. ?Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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