Zangwill, Israel
From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays
Read in historical sequence, they take us on a two-hundred-year journey that begins in eighteenth-century London, with its intra-jewish tensions farcically depicted in 'The King of Schnorrers', then proceeds to the nineteenth-century London Ghetto struggling at a crossroads between tradition and modernity, as portrayed in 'Children of the Ghetto', and finally reaches the shores of twentieth-century America, where the survivor of a Russian pogrom advocates intermarriage and delivers a messianic gospel of tolerance and racial fusion in 'The Melting Pot'. Edna Nahshon's in-depth introduction to this volume includes a biography of Israel Zangwill that especially pertains to these works and situates them within the Anglo-American theater of the time. The essays preceding each play provide rich and hitherto unknown information on the scripts, their stage productions, and their popular and critical reception. While some issues addressed in 'From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot' are uniquely Jewish, others are universal and typical of the negotiation of self-presentation by ethnic and minority groups, particularly within the American experience.
- Verlag: WAYNE ST UNIV PR
- ISBN: 0814329551
- Preis: 25,95 €
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