Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents 1
3. Director’s Foreword 7
4. Overture: From the Bowery to Broadway 8
5. ACT 1. Yiddish New York 50
6. ACT 2. Popular Yiddish Theater: Music, Melodrama, and Operetta 64
7. ACT 3. Jacob Gordin: The Great Reformer 84
8. ACT4. Pathbreakers and Superstars
9. Jacob P. Adler and the Formation of a Theatrical Dynasty 102
10. Boris Thomashefsky: Matinee Idol of the Yiddish Stage 118
11. Molly Picon: Darling of Second Avenue 128
12. Intermission 140
13. ACT 5. Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater Movement 150
14. ACT 6. Yiddish Political Theater: The Artef 174
15. ACT 7. Yiddish Theater and the Transformation of American Design 194
16. ACT 8. Modicut: The Yiddish Puppet Theater of Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud 222
17. ACT 9. Yiddish Vaudeville
18. Entertaining the Crowd 238
19. Early Yiddish Vaudeville in New York City 248
20. ACT 10. Borscht Belt Entertainment 256
21. 11. Tevye’s Travels: From Yiddish Everyman to American Icon 276
22. Finale: A Gallery of Stars of the American Yiddish Stage 304
23. Editor’s Acknowledgments 314
24. Contributors 315
25. Endnotes 316
26. Selected Bibliography 320
27. Index 322
28. Photography Credits 326
29. Backmatter 328