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A sampling of plays by Donald Margulies and other contemporary Jewish playwrights that exemplifies the diversity and excellence of Jewish theatre today.

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Mainstream readers are encouraged to visit the drama bookshelf to locate this intelligent, probing collection filled with vivid examples of how dramatic literature can humanize moral and social dilemmas by embodying them in the personal irritations and intimacies of daily life. * Forward *

Table of Contents
  • Editors' Acknowledgments
  • Foreword (Theodore Bikel)
  • Preface: The New Play Commissions and the New Jewish Theatre (Ellen Schiff)
  • Introduction: Background and History of the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre (Michael Posnick)
  • God of Vengeance (Donald Margulies)
  • A Certain Raquel (Nora Glickman)
  • Green Violin (Elise Thoron)
  • Life in Refusal (Ari Roth)
  • See Under: Love (Corey Fischer)
  • The Action against Sol Schumann (Jeffrey Sweet)
  • Exile in Jerusalem (Motti Lerner)
  • Asher's Command (Marilyn Clayton Felt)
  • The Last Seder (Jennifer Maisel)
  • About the Playwrights
  • Permissions

Nine Contemporary Jewish Plays

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2005
      ISBN13: 9780292712904, 978-0292712904
      ISBN10: 0292712901
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A sampling of plays by Donald Margulies and other contemporary Jewish playwrights that exemplifies the diversity and excellence of Jewish theatre today.

      Trade Review
      Mainstream readers are encouraged to visit the drama bookshelf to locate this intelligent, probing collection filled with vivid examples of how dramatic literature can humanize moral and social dilemmas by embodying them in the personal irritations and intimacies of daily life. * Forward *

      Table of Contents
      • Editors' Acknowledgments
      • Foreword (Theodore Bikel)
      • Preface: The New Play Commissions and the New Jewish Theatre (Ellen Schiff)
      • Introduction: Background and History of the New Play Commissions in Jewish Theatre (Michael Posnick)
      • God of Vengeance (Donald Margulies)
      • A Certain Raquel (Nora Glickman)
      • Green Violin (Elise Thoron)
      • Life in Refusal (Ari Roth)
      • See Under: Love (Corey Fischer)
      • The Action against Sol Schumann (Jeffrey Sweet)
      • Exile in Jerusalem (Motti Lerner)
      • Asher's Command (Marilyn Clayton Felt)
      • The Last Seder (Jennifer Maisel)
      • About the Playwrights
      • Permissions

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