Jews and the Making of Modern German Theatre Book

Preface and Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: Break a Leg! Jeanette R. Malkin 1

2 Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience Steven E. Aschheim 21

3 How "Jewish" Was Theatre in Imperial Berlin? Peter Jelavich 39

4 Stagestruck: Jewish Attitudes to the Theatre in Wilhelmine Germany Anat Feinberg 59

5 Yiddish Theatre and Its Impact on the German and Austrian Stage Delphine Bechtel 77

6 German and Jewish "Theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theater-Seele between Goethe and Kafka Bernhard Greiner 99

7 Arnold Zweig and the Critics: Reconsidering the Jewish "Contribution" to German Theatre Peter W. Marx 116

8 Jewish Cabaret Artists before 1933 Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer 132

9 Transforming in Public: Jewish Actors on the German Expressionist Stage Jeanette R. Malkin 151

10 The Shaping of the Ostjude: Alexander Granach and Shimon Finkel in Berlin Shelly Zer-Zion 174

11 Max Reinhardt between Yiddish Theatre and the Salzburg Festival Lisa Silverman 197

12 Theatre as Festive Play: Max Reinhardt's Productions of The Merchant of Venice Erika Fischer-Lichte 219

13 The Unknown Leopold Jessner: German Theatre and Jewish Identity Anat Feinberg 232

14 Epilogue Freddie Rokem 261

Works Cited 269

Contributors 291

Index 295