Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Hardcover. As New/As New. Bright, clean, unmarked pages. Binding is firm. Dustjacket and cover show little wear. Contents: Hans Hinkel and German Jewry, 1933-1941 / Alan E. Steinweis--Artistic mission in Nazi Berlin: the Jewish Kulturbund Theater as sanctuary / Rebecca Rovit--We've enough Tsoris: laughter at the edge of the abyss / Volker Ku?hn--Interview with Mascha Benya-Matz / Rebecca Rovit--Interview with Kurt Michaelis / Rebecca Rovit--Correspondence / Julius Bab and Fritz Wisten--Protocols, Nazi propaganda ministry--Kulturbund dramaturg Dr. Leo Hirsch--Letters from actor Kurt Suessmann to Martin Brandt--Letter from Fritz Wisten to Max Ehrlich--"It's burning" / Mordechai Gebirtig--Theatrical activities in the Polish ghettos during the years 1939-1942 / Moshe Fass--Latvia and Auschwitz / Yonas Turkov--Theatrical activities in the Nazi concentration amps / Alvin Goldfarb--Singing in the face of death: a study of Jewish cabaret and opera during the Holocaust / Samuel M. Edelman--Cultural activities in the Vilna Ghetto, March 1942--Selections from Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary / Avraham Tory--"Invitation" / Leo Strauss--Drama behind barbed wire / David Wolff--"Freest theater in the Reich": in the German concentration camps / Curt Daniel --Yiddish theater of Belsen / Samy Feder--"Voices"--Selections from Letters from Westerbork / Etty Hillesum--Selections from Year of fear / Philip Mechanicus--Selection from The scum of the earth / Arthur Koestler--Selections from If this is a man / Primo Levi--Selection from Ravensbru?ck: the women's death camp / Denise Dufournier --Theresienstadt / Rebecca Rovit--Creation in a death camp / Aaron Kramer--Operatic performances in Terezi?n: Kra?sa's Brundiba?r / Joz?a Karas--Theresienstadt questions / Leo Strauss--Letter from Theresienstadt / Kurt Singer--Freizeitgestaltung in Theresienstadt / Rabbi Erich Weiner--Czech theater in Terezi?n / Zdenka Ehrlich-Fantlova?--Emperor of Atlantis [Der Kaiser von Atlantis] / Music by Viktor Ullmann; text by Peter Kien--Memories of Theresienstadt / Mirko Tuma--Epilogue: Lost, stolen, and strayed: the archival heritage of modern German-Jewish history / Sybil H. Milton.