Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Meshugas of the Yiddish Theater in America (49 page)

O Nicholas! Alas! Alas!
My grandfather coughed in your army
Hid in a wine-stinking barrel
For three days in Bucharest,
Then left for America
To become a king himself.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

YIDDISH THEATER HISTORIES AND MEMOIRS

Adler, Jacob.
A Life on the Stage: A Memoir.
Applause,

Aleichem, Sholem
The Jackpot: A Folk-Play in Four Acts,
trans. Kofi Weitzner and Barnett Zumoff. Workmen's Circle Education,

Beck, Evelyn Torton.
Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work.
University of Wisconsin Press,

Berkowitz, Joel.
Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage.
University of Iowa Press,

Bernardi, Jack.
My Father, the Actor.
W. W. Norton,

Brown, Phil,
In the Catskills: A Century of Jewish Experience in “The Mountains.”
Columbia University Press,

Burstein, Pesach'ke, Lillian Lux
What a Life!: The Autobiography of Pesach'ke Burstein, Yiddish Matinee Idol.
Syracuse University Press,

Kadison, Luba, Joseph Buloff Irving Genn
Onstage, Offstage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theatre.
Harvard University Press,

Kaminska, Ida.
Ida Kaminska: My Life, My Theater,
ed. and trans. Kurt Leviant. Macmillan,

Kobrin, Leon
Recollections of a Yiddish Dramatist: A Quarter Century of Yiddish Theater in America
(in Yiddish). Committee for Kobrin's Writings,

Lawrence, Jerome
Actor: The Life and Times of Paul Muni.
Samuel French,

Lifson, David S.
The Yiddish Theatre in America.
Thomas Yoseloff,

Lipsky, Lewis
Tales of the Yiddish Rialto: Reminiscences of Playwrights and Players in New York's Jewish Theater in the Early 1900s.
Thomas Yoseloff,

Miller, James Albert
The Detroit Yiddish Theater, 1920–1937.
Wayne State University Press,

Nahshon, Edna.
Yiddish Proletarian Theater: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925–1940.
Greenwood,

Picon, Molly, Jean Grillo.
Molly! An Autobiography.
Simon & Schuster,

Pinski, David.
The Yiddish Drama
(in Yiddish). New York,

Rosenfeld, Lulla.
Bright Star of Exile: Jacob Adler and the Yiddish Theatre.
Thomas Y. Crowell,

Rumshinsky, Joseph
Notes from My Life
(in Yiddish). Society fun Yidishe Kompositorn,

Sandrow, Nahma.
Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater.
Syracuse University Press,

Schildkraut, Joseph, as told to Leo Lania
My Father and I.
Viking,

Secunda, Victoria.
Bei Mir Bist Du Schè¶n: The Life of Sholom Secunda.
Magic Circle Press,

Siegel, Ben.
The Controversial Sholem Asch: An Introduction to His Fiction.
Bowling Green University Popular Press,

Singer, Isaac B.
Lost in America.
Doubleday,

Thomashefsky, Bessie.
My Life Story
(in Yiddish). Varhahayt Publishing,

Thomashefsky, Boris
My Life Story
(in Yiddish). Trio Press,

Waife-Goldberg, Marie.
My Father, Sholem Aleichem.
Simon & Schuster,

Warembud, Norman H.,
The Great Songs of the Yiddish Theater.
Quadrangle/New York Times,

Warnke, Nina. “Immigrant Culture as Contested Sphere: The Yiddish Music Halls, the Yiddish Press, and the Process of Americanization, 1900–1910.”
Theatre Journal,
vol. 48, issue 3,

Yablokoff, Herman.
Der Piatz: Around the World with Yiddish Theater.
Bartleby,

Young, Boaz.
My Life in the Theater
(in Yiddish). YKUF,

Zeitlin, Steve,
Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling.
Simon &Schuster,

Zohn, Herschel
All the World's a Stage.
Yucca Free Press,

Zohn, Herschel
The Story of the Yiddish Theatre.
Privately published,

Zukofsky, Louis.
Autobiography.
Grossman,

Zylberzweig, Zalmen.
Album of the Yiddish Theater.
Privately published,

Zylberzweig, Zalmen,
Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater
ed. (in Yiddish). Hebrew Actors Union, Vols. 1–5

TEXTS OF PLAYS FROM OR ABOUT THE YIDDISH MILIEU

Ansky, S.
The Dybbuk and Other Writings,
edited and with an introduction by David G. Roskies, with translations by Golda Werman. Yale University Press,

Chayefsky, Paddy.
The Tenth Man.
Samuel French,

Gardner, Herb.
Conversations with My Father.
Doubleday,

Goldberg, Isaac, ed. and trans. John W. Luce,
Six Plays of the Yiddish Theater.

Kraft, Hy.
Café Crown: A Comedy in Three Acts.
Dramatists Play Service,

Kushner, Tony.
A Dybbuk and Other Tales of the Supernatural,
translated from S. Ansky by Joachim Neugroschel. Theater Communications Group,

Landis, Joseph C., ed. and trans.
The Great Jewish Plays.
Horizon Press,

Lessing, Gotthold.
Two Jewish Plays by Gotthold Lessing,
trans. Noel Clark. Oberon,

Levick, H.
The Golem,
adapted by David Fishelson from a translation by Joseph C. Landis. Dramatists Play Service,

Lifson, David S.
Sholem Aleichem's Wandering Star and Other Plays of Jewish Life.
Cornwall,

Margulies, Donald.
God of Vengeance,
adapted from the play by Sholem Asch, basic translation by Joachim Neugroschel. Dramatists Play Service,

Odets, Clifford.
Six Plays.
Random House,

Perl, Arnold.
Tevye and His Daughters, Based on the Tevye Stories of Sholem Aleichem.
Dramatists Play Service,

Pinski, David.
Three Plays,
trans. Isaac Goldberg. B. W. Huebsch,

Pinski, David.
The Treasure, A Drama in Four Acts,
trans. Ludwig Lewishohn. B. W. Huebsch,

Sandrow, Nahma, trans.
God, Man and Devil: Yiddish Plays.
Syracuse University Press,

Schiff, Ellen, ed.
Awake and Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays.
Applause,

Schwartz, Maurice.
Shylock and His Daughter: A Play Based on a Hebrew Novel by Ari Ibn Zahav,
trans. Abraham Riegelson. Yiddish Art Theater,

Stein, Joseph.
Fiddler on the Roof.
Pocket,

Stein, Joseph.
Rags, A New Musical.
Unpublished manuscript,

YIDDISH CINEMA

Cohen, Sarah Blacher, ed.
From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Screen.
Indiana University Press,

Friedman, Lester D., ed.
Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema.
University of Illinois Press,

Goldberg, Judith N.
Laughter Through Tears: The Yiddish Cinema.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Goldman, Eric A.
Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present.
Ergo Media,

Hoberman, J.
Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds.
Museum of Modern Art/Schocken,

Stern, Bill.
You Don't Have to Be Jewish: Commentaries on a Selection of Jewish Content Movies.
Lugos,

CROSS-CURRENTS OF THE YIDDISH THEATER IN AMERICAN SHOW BUSINESS

Adler, Stella.
Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov.
Vintage,

Charyn, Jerome.
Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway.
Four Walls Eight Windows,

Clurman, Harold.
The Fervent Years: The Group Theater and the Thirties.
Da Capo,

Cole, Toby, and Helen Krich Chinoy,
Actors on Acting: The Theories, Techniques and Practices of the World's Greatest Actors, Told in Their Own Words.
eds. Three Rivers,

Epstein, Helen.
Joe Papp: An American Life.
Da Capo,

Epstein, Lawrence J.
The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America.
Public Affairs,

Erdman, Harley.
Staging of the Jew: The Performance of an American Ethnicity, 1860–1920.
Rutgers University Press,

Frommer, Myrna Katz, and Harvey Frommer.
It Happened on Broadway: An Original History of the Great White Way.
University of Wisconsin Press,

Gottlieb, Jack.
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish: How Yiddish Songs and Synagogue Melodies Influenced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood.
State University of New York Press,

Herr, Christopher J.
Clifford Odets and American Political Theatre.
Praeger,

Kaktov, Norman.
The Fabulous Fanny: The Story of Fanny Brice.
Alfred A. Knopf,

Lyman, Darryl.
Great Jews on Stage and Screen.
Jonathan David,

Mast, Gerald.
The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies.
University of Chicago Press,

Most, Andrea.
Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical.
Harvard University Press,

Samuels, Charles, and Louise Samuels.
Once Upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville.
Dodd, Mead,

Sapoznik, Henry.
Klezmer!: Jewish Music from Old World to Our World.
Schirmer,

Snyder, Robert W.
The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York.
Oxford University Press,

Stein, Charles W.
American Vaudeville, as Seen by Its Contemporaries.
Alfred A. Knopf,

Strasberg, Lee.
A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method.
Penguin,

Toll, Robert C.
The Entertainment Machine: American Show Business in the Twentieth Century.
Oxford University Press,

Tucker, Sophie.
Some of These Days.
Doubleday,

Winokur, Mark.
American Laughter: Immigrants, Ethnicity and 1930s Hollywood Film Comedy.
St. Martin's,

THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND ENVIRONS

Bettmann, Otto L.
The Good Old Days—They Were Terrible!
Random House,

Birmingham, Stephen.
“Our Crowd”: The Great Jewish Families of New York.
Harper & Row,

Birmingham, Stephen.
“The Rest of Us”: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews.
Little, Brown,

Burroughs, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.
Oxford University Press,

Cahan, Abraham.
The Education of Abraham Cahan,
trans. Abraham Conan, Lynn Davison, and Leo Stein. Jewish Publication Society,

Cahan, Abraham.
The Rise of David Levinsky.
Harper & Bros.,

Diner, Hasia R.
Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America.
Princeton University Press,

Douglas, Ann.
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux,

Epstein, Melech.
The Jew and Communism.
Trade Union Sponsoring Committee,

Hapgood, Hutchins.
The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York.
Funk & Wagnalls,

Henderson, Mary C.
The City and the Theatre: The History of New York Playhouses, a 250-Year Journey from Bowling Green to Times Square.
Backstage Books,

Howe, Irving.
The World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made.
Phoenix,

Kanfer, Stefan.
A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux,

Kazin, Alfred.
Starting Out in the Thirties.
Little, Brown,

Kazin, Alfred.
A Walker in the City.
Harcourt, Brace,

Libo, Kenneth, and Irving Howe.
How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880–1930.
Richard Marek,

Libo, Kenneth, and Irving Howe.
We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures—Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America, 1630–1930.
St. Martin's/Marek,

Manners, Ande.
Poor Cousins.
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,

Marqusee, Mike, and Bill Harris,
New York: An Anthology.
eds. Little, Brown,

Mendelsohn, Joyce.
The Lower East Side, Remembered and Revisited.
Lower East Side Press,

Metzker, Isaac,
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Vols. 1 and 2. ed. Doubleday, 1971,

Morris, Lloyd.
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Random House,

Riis, Jacob A.
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Penguin,

Rischin, Moses.
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Harper & Row,

Roskolenko, Harry.
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Dial,

Sanders, Ronald.
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Harper & Row,

Sanders, Ronald.
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Henry Holt,

Schoener, Allan,
Portal to America: The Lower East Side, 1870–1925.
ed. Holt, Rinehart & Winston,

Simon, Kate.
Bronx Primitive.
Viking,

Simon, Robert A.
Bronx Ballad.
Simon & Schuster,

Spewack, Bella.
Streets: A Memoir of the Lower East Side.
Feminist Press,