Syllabus

• Welcome!
• Syllabus and Course Tips
• Pre-Course Survey
• General Course Introduction

• Unit 1: Foundations
• Unit 1 Overture with Allen and Yelena
• Jewish Ritual Performance Tradition
• Jewish Dramatic Texts - Maskilic Dramas
• Beginnings of the Modern Yiddish Theater - Abraham Goldfaden
• Realism of the Yiddish Stage - Jacob Gordin
• Unit 1 Bibliography
• Unit 1 Open Forum

• Unit 2: Geographic Centers
• Unit 2 Overture with Allen and Yelena
• United States
• Poland
• Russia
• Great Britain
• South America
• Yiddish Theater Around the World
• Unit 2 Bibliography
• Unit 2 Open Forum

• Unit 3: Genres and Performance Styles
• Unit 3 Overture with Allen and Yelena
• Popular Musicals, Melodramas, and Operettas
• Literary Plays and Art Theater
• Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater
• Political Theater
• Unit 3 Bibliography
• Unit 3 Open Forum

• Unit 4: Stars of the Stage
• Unit 4 Overture with Allen and Yelena
• The Adlers
• The Thomashefsky's
• The Kaminskas
• Molly Picon
• Unit 4 Bibliography
• Unit 4 Open Forum

• Unit 5: Intersections
• Unit 5 Overture with Allen and Yelena
• Translations of Western Classics into Yiddish
• Yiddish to English Crossovers
• Yiddish Films
• A Coversation with Allen and Yelena
• Unit 5 Bibliography
• Unit 5 Open Forum

• Conclusion
• Conclusion