Ahuva Belkin. The Purimshpil, Studies in Jewish Folk Theater. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2002. 287 pp. (Hebrew).
In the Early Modern period, the Jewish people did not develop theater arts comparable to that of other cultures. One reason often given to explain this absence of theatrical tradition is the virulent denunciations of theater by the rabbis, who likened it to idolatry and heresy, and condemned it as b...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2005
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Year: 2005, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 404-405 |
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