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  • The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater

    by Alyssa Quint ...
    Jewish Book Award Finalist: "Turns the fascinating life of Avrom Goldfaden into a multi-dimensional history of the Yiddish theater's formative years." —Jeffery Veidinger, author of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian EmpireIn this book, Alyssa Quint focuses on the early years of the modern Yiddish theater, from roughly 1876 to 1883, through the works of one of its best-known and most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Yiddish Plays by Women

    Female Jewish Perspectives, 1880-1920

    Edited by Dr Alyssa Quint ...
    Series series Yiddish Voices
    This is an unprecedented collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women in the period from 1880 to 1920. Taken together, these plays provide a fascinating insight into female Jewish perspectives on a range of women's issues prevalent at the time and, in some cases, still prevalent today. The works explore topics such as the Jewish law of the 'chained widow', pregnancy out of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Mississippi

    A Yiddish Play about the Scottsboro Affair

    by Leib Malach ...
    Translated by Dr Alyssa Quint, Ellen Perecman ...
    Series series Yiddish Voices
    In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage.Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experimental Yiddish theatre company “Young Theater” (Yung Teatr) led by legendary director and drama theoretician Mikhl Weichert. Malach and Weichert were ... Read more

    $17.09 USD