Three Yiddish Plays by Women: Female Jewish Perspectives, 1880-1920

This collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women from 1880 to 1920 offers a fascinating insight into female Jewish perspectives on women's issues. The plays explore topics such as the Jewish law of the 'chained widow, pregnancy out of wedlock, and birth control, and are accompanied by an introduction that provides historical context and biographical information about the playwrights.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This is an extraordinary collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women in the period from 1880 to 1920. When taken together, these plays offer a captivating insight into female Jewish perspectives on a wide range of women's issues that were prevalent at the time and, in some cases, still prevalent today. The works explore various topics, including the Jewish law of the 'chained widow,' pregnancy out of wedlock, and birth control, among many others.

Three Yiddish Plays by Women includes an insightful contextual introduction that provides historical context for each individual work, summaries and discussions of the texts, and stage histories for two of the three that have them. The introduction offers biographical information about each playwright and examines the scope of their activities, considering gender norms. It also engages with a range of recent sources and approaches to intersecting questions of theater and gender in a landmark volume of immense significance to students of women's history, modern Jewish history, cultural history, and theater history.

Weight: 310g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350321014