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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hess, Jonathan M. (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Deborah and her sisters [Texte imprimé] : how one nineteenth-century melodrama and a host of celebrated actresses put Judaism on the world stage / Jonathan M. Hess
Publication : Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) : University of Pennsylvania press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (263 p.) : ill., fac-sim., portr. ; 24 cm
Collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Lien à la collection : Jewish culture and contexts
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking
melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years
of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria,
as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish
elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. Mosenthal, had written a
drama bearing little authentic Jewish content, while literary critics protested that
the play lacked the formal coherence of great tragedy. Yet despite its lackluster
critical reception, Deborah became a blockbuster, giving millions of theatergoers
the pleasures of sympathizing with an exotic Jewish woman. It spawned adaptations
with titles from Leah, the Forsaken to Naomi, the Deserted, burlesques, poems, operas
in Italian and Czech, musical selections for voice and piano, a British novel fraudulently
marketed in the United States as the original basis for the play, three American silent
films, and thousands of souvenir photographs of leading actresses from Adelaide Ristori
to Sarah Bernhardt in character as Mosenthal's forsaken Jewess"-- sur la jacquette
Sujet(s) : Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann (1821-1877). Deborah -- Adaptations
Mosenthal, Salomon Hermann (1821-1877). Deborah -- Appréciation
Juives -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-8122-4958-3. - ISBN 0-8122-4958-5 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45456247j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45456247
