CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Contributors to the Volume -- Introductory Essay: What is Jewish Theatre? (Edna Nahshon) -- SECTION ONE THE WORLD OF YIDDISH -- Ritual Space as Theatrical Space in Jewish Folk Theatre (Ahuva Belkin) -- Jacob Gordin's Dialogue with Tolstoy: Di Kreytser Sonata (1902) (Barbara Henry) -- Isaac Bashevis-Singer's Attitude to the Yiddish Theater as Shown in His Works (Nathan Cohen) -- SECTION TWO BETWEEN JEWS AND POLES -- Józio Grojseszyk: A Jewish City Slicker on the Warsaw Popular Stage (Michael C. Steinlauf) -- The Polish Shulamis: Jewish Drama on the Polish Stage in the Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries (Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska) -- SECTION THREE NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN ENGLISH,ITALIAN AND GERMAN -- Jewish Languages and Jewish Characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo Schiavetto (Paola Bertolone) -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew": Converting Shylock on Stage (Shaul Bassi) -- Philosemitism on the London Stage: Sydney Grundy's An Old Jew (Edna Nahshon) -- Jewish Self-Presentation and the "Jewish Question" on the German Stage from 1900 to 1930 (Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer) -- Popular Jewish Drama in Vienna in the 1920s (Brigitte Dalinger) -- SECTION FOUR PRESENCE AND ABSENCE IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE -- On Arriving Front and Center: American Jewish Identity on the American Stage (Ellen Schiff) -- Generational Shifts in American Jewish Theatre (Linda Ben-Zvi) -- SECTION FIVE PERFORMING THE HOLOCAUST/DEBATINGISRAEL ON STAGE -- Staying Ungooselike: The Holocaust and the Theatre of Choice (Robert Skloot) -- Job's Soul and Otto Weininger's Torments: Jewish Themes in the Theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol (Freddie Rokem) -- Index -- APPENDIX -- Abraham's Scene (introductory essay) (Paolo Puppa) -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) (Paolo Puppa).