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Audience Response in the Yiddish ‘Shund’ Theatre

  • Ilana Bialik (a1)
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The following comparison between the Yiddish ‘Shund’ play Dos Yudishe Hertz by Joseph Lateiner and August von Katzebue's most popular melodrama Menschenhass und Reue aims to throw light on a very significant aspect of the Yiddish ‘Shund’ Theatre. I believe that the conclusions of this comparison show how Yiddish ‘Shund’ playwrights tried to answer their audience expectations and how they manipulated their audience by trying to evoke a certain kind of response.

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1. Lateiner, Joseph, Dos Yudische Hertz (Warsaw, A. Gitlin, 1913).

2. von Katzebue, August, Menschenhass and rue. English translation: B. Thompson (tr.), The stranger (London, Venor and Hood, 1800).

3. Zilberzweig, Z.. Lexicon fun Yiddishen teater (New York. Elisheva, 1963 (1931)), pp. 591–605; 963–90.

4. Gorin, B., Die Geschichte fun Yiddishen Teater (New York, Meisel, 1923) vol. II, pp. 261–8.

5. Kobrin, L., Ereingungen fun a Yiddishen dramaturg: A fertl yórhundert Yiddish teater in America (New York, 1925) p. 13.

6. Ibid, p. 32.

7. Etinger, Shlomo, Serkele oder di falshe tzavoe in Weinreich, Max, Ale ktovim fun Doctor Shlomo Etinger (Warsaw, Kletzkin, 1925).

8. The music for Dos Yudishe Hertz was composed by Zigmund Mogulesku.

9. The strict morality of ‘classical’ melodrama needs a villain and requires cruelty and melodramatic lynch. Cf. Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism (Princeton University Press, 1957) p. 47.

10. Brooks, P., The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama and the mode of excess (Yale University Press, 1976) p. 14.

11. R. B. Heilman Speaks of a melodramatic catharsis which is essentially a ‘monophatic’ experience: Tragedy and melodrama: versions of experience (University of Chicago Press, 1968).

12. Hurwitz, Moshe, Tissa Essler, drame mit gezange in 5 akten (1895). Three manuscripts of this play at the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, New York.

13. L. Kobrin, ibid. p. 28.

14. Young, B., Mein leben in teater (New York, 1950) p. 170.

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