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Irish Catholic Liam Neeson, the Jewish Dudu Fisher, the Catholic Vanessa and othersTalk Spirituality in New Book "Working on the Inside"
By Robert Simonson
"Working on the Inside," a new book by theatre journalist Retta Blaney, takes a look at the point where the seemingly disparate worlds of acting and religion meet. The volume, is subtitled "The Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors," |
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Arthur Miller: His Life and Work," by Martin Gottfried
For fans of Arthur Miller there is a newly arrived book, Arthur Miller: His Life and Work," by Martin Gottfried (Da Capo Press, $30). A longtime chronicler of the Broadway scene, Gottfried is clearly a partisan Millerite. But his careful analysis of the plays, woven into the fabric of the writer's very public private life, is detailed and at times revelatory. |
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God, Man, and Devil-Yiddish Plays in Translation
By Sandrow, Nahma
The Two Kuni-Lemls Based on Avrom Goldfadn, GOD, MAN AND DEVIL by Jacob Gordin, (1900),GREEN FIELDS by Peretz Hirschbein( 1916)SHOP by H. Leivick (1926),THE TREASURE by David Pinski( 1906),and BRONX EXPRESS by Osip Dimov(1919-1926)
translated and edited from Yiddish by Nahma Sandrow. |
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Songs Never Silenced by Velvel Pasternak
By Jack Riemer
The story behind this book is this: in l948, a survivor named Shmerke Kaczerginsky who lived in Paris wrote down the songs that he remembered or that he could gather from others. The book consisted of the lyrics for two hundred and twenty songs, together with the hand- written, melody transcriptions of a hundred of them. His book nearly disappeared after a while and the few remaining copies of it can only be found on the dusty shelves of second hand bookstores...... |
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Source Edition on the History of the Jewish Theatre in Vienna
By Dr. Brigitte Dalinger
The Source Edition on the History of the Jewish Theatre in Vienna comprises 79 sources from 1880 to 1955. Some of the documents have been translated from Yiddish. As such, it is a major source of information for scholars from different research areas and also for the broader public. |
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