Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust :

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust collects for the first time critical essays, memoirs, and primary source materials -- many never before available in English -- relating to the surprising history of Jewish drama, cabaret, music, and opera under the Third Reich. These documents offer the remarkable account of a phenomenon that existed across Nazi Europe -- in German cities, in Eastern European ghettos, and in concentration camps.

List of Illustrations

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

1

(10)

Rebecca Rovit

I Identification: Jewish Theatrical Performance in Nazi Germany

11

(80)

Essays

Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933--1941

15

(13)

Alan E. Steinweis

An Artistic Mission in Nazi Berlin: The Jewish Kulturbund Theater as Sanctuary

28

(12)

Rebecca Rovit

``We've Enough Tsoris'': Laughter at the Edge of the Abyss

40

(21)

Volker Kuhn

Documents and Memoirs

Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz

61

(6)

Rebecca Rovit

Interview with Kurt Michaelis

67

(5)

Rebecca Rovit

Correspondence

72

(4)

Julius Bab

Fritz Wisten

``Protocols'', Nazi Propaganda Ministry

76

(5)

Kulturbund Dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch

81

(3)

Letter from Actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt

84

(3)

Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich

87

(4)

II Containment: Performance in Ghettos and in Concentration Camps

91

(76)

``It's Burning,''

93

(4)

Mordechai Gebirtig

Essays

Theatrical Activities in the Polish Ghettos during the Years 1939--1942

97

(16)

Moshe Fass

Latvia and Auschwitz

113

(4)

Yonas Turkov

Theatrical Activities in the Nazi Concentration Camps

117

(8)

Alvin Goldfarb

Singing in the Face of Death: A Study of Jewish Cabaret and Opera during the Holocaust

125

(10)

Samuel M. Edelman

Documents and Memoirs

Cultural Activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942

135

(5)

Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary

140

(3)

Avraham Tory

``Invitation''

143

(2)

Leo Strauss

Drama Behind Barbed Wire

145

(5)

David Wolff

``The Freest Theater in the Reich'': In the German Concentration Camps

150

(6)

Curt Daniel

The Yiddish Theater of Belsen

156

(3)

Samy Feder

``Voices''

159

(1)

Selections from Letters from Westerbork

159

(1)

Etty Hillesum

Selections from Year of Fear

160

(3)

Philip Mechanicus

Selection from The Scum of the Earth

163

(2)

Arthur Koestler

Selection from If This Is a Man

165

(1)

Primo Levi

Selection from Ravensbruck: The Women's Death Camp

165

(2)

Denise Dufournier

III ``The Model Ghetto'': Theatrical Performance at Terezin

167

(126)

Theresienstadt

169

(10)

Rebecca Rovit

Essays

Creation in a Death Camp

179

(11)

Aaron Kramer

Operatic Performance in Terezin: Krasa's Brundibar

190

(13)

Joza Karas

Documents and Memoirs

Theresienstadt Questions

203

(5)

Leo Strauss

Letter from Theresienstadt

208

(1)

Kurt Singer

Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt

209

(22)

Rabbi Erich Weiner

The Czech Theater in Terezin

231

(19)

Zdenka Ehrlich

The Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] Music

250

(15)

Viktor Ullmann

Peter Kien

Memories of Theresienstadt

265

(28)

Mirko Tuma

Epilogue: Lost, Stolen, and Strayed: The Archival Heritage of Modern German-Jewish History

274

(19)

Sybil H. Milton

Notes

293

(34)

Selected Bibliography

327

(6)

List of Contributors

333

(4)

Credits

337

(2)

Index

339

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust : Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust : Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Digital License