Berkowitz, Joel. — Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage.

Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0877458006. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ . BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xvi, 283. Plus a number of halftone plates. Notes, bibliography, index. HARDCOVER, blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, with pictorial dust-jacket. ~ FIRST EDITION. In 1881 New York became the world's centre of Yiddish theatre with numerous productions of Shakespeare's plays. This book is a study of American immigrant cultural history, the development of modern secular Jewish culture, and the history of a unique theatrical culture. P-3 .