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BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Edna Nahshon is professor of Theater and Drama at 91快播. Her specialty is the intersection of Jewishness, theater, and performance, and she has written extensively about Yiddish theater. Her most recent book is Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to 鈥淭he Merchant of Venice鈥� (with Michael Shapiro).

In 2016, Dr. Nahshon curated the鈥痟ighly successful exhibition 鈥淣ew York鈥檚 Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway鈥� for the Museum of the City of New York (March 7鈥揂ugust 14, 2016). The exhibition was accompanied by a book of the same title, with Dr. Nahshon as contributing editor. It was selected as the recipient of the鈥�2016鈥疓eorge Freedley Award鈥疭pecial Jury鈥疨rize鈥痜or an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance.

Dr. Nahshon is a member of the editorial board of鈥疉ll About Jewish Theater, an electronic database. She has served as consultant and reader for academic periodicals and publishers, among them Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and serves as theater editor for Brill Publishers series Jews, Judaism, and the Arts.

Dr. Nahshon has regularly organized panels and delivered papers at conferences and congresses organized by the Association for Jewish Studies, the World Congress of Jewish Studies, the European Association of Jewish Studies, and the International Federation for Theatre Research. She has been invited twice to present her work at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. She also organized the groundbreaking, three-day conference Jews/Theatre/Performance in an Intercultural World at 91快播 in 2009.

Dr. Nahshon has written numerous articles and reviews. Academic venues include鈥疉merican Jewish History,鈥疉JS Review,鈥疨rint Quarterly,鈥痶he Jewish Quarterly,鈥痶he Kurt Weill Newsletter,鈥疛ews in Russia and Eastern Europe, and鈥疶DR鈥�(The Drama Review). Hebrew venues include鈥疩esher, Zmanim, and鈥疊amah. She has also written for the popular press in the United States and Britain, notably鈥疪enaissance,鈥疶ablet鈥痬agazine, and the鈥疛ewish Daily Forward;鈥痑nd鈥痠n Israel,鈥疍avka鈥痑nd鈥疕a鈥檃retz.

Dr. Nahshon’s theatrical contributions have included serving as producer and dramaturg of 91快播鈥檚 milestone production鈥疊ratslav-Beethoven-Bratslav, directed by Yossi Yizraely, and serving as the historical advisor to the television project鈥疶he鈥疞ife and Death of the Federal Theatre.

Dr. Nahshon has been a guest professor at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine, and the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. She served for many years as senior associate at Oxford University鈥檚 Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, where she was Visiting Skirball Fellow in 1999. She was also a member of the New York University Center for Religion and Media鈥檚 Jews, Media, and Religion group.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

American Academy for Jewish Research

American Council of Learned Societies

Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford, Britain鈥擲kirball Fellowship

From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot (Wayne State University Press, 2005): Honored by the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Committee of the Association for Jewish Studies as a 2009 Notable Selection in the category of Jews and the Arts.

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture

New York鈥檚 Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway: Contributing editor. Recipient of the 2016 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize for an exemplary work in the field of live theater or performance.

YIVO

BOOKS

Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to 鈥淭he Merchant of Venice.鈥濃�疌ambridge University Press, 2016/17.

New York鈥檚 Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway.鈥疦ew York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Jews and Theater in an Intercultural Context.鈥疎ditor and contributor. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012.

Jewish Theatre: A Global View.鈥疎ditor and contributor. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009.

Jews and Shoes. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2008.

From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill鈥檚 Jewish Plays.鈥疍etroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005.

Yiddish Proletarian Theatre: The Art and Politics of the Artef, 1925鈥�1940.鈥疻estwood, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

RECENT BOOK CHAPTERS

鈥淛ewish American Drama.鈥� In鈥疶he Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature, edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

鈥淎lways Habima: The Artistic Path of Benno Schneider鈥� (in Hebrew). In鈥疕abima: 90 Years On.鈥疶el Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, forthcoming 2015.

鈥淎nne Frank from Page to Stage.鈥濃�疘n鈥疉nne Frank Unbound: Media, Imagination, and Memory,鈥痚dited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, 59鈥�92. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

鈥淕oing Against the Grain: Jews and Passion Plays in America, 1879鈥�1929.鈥� In鈥疛ews and Theater in an Intercultural Context,鈥痚dited by Edna Nahshon.鈥疞eiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers,鈥�2012.

鈥淧hilosemitism on the London Stage: Sydney Grundy鈥檚鈥疉n Old Jew.鈥溾�疘n鈥疛ewish Theatre: A Global View,鈥痚dited by Edna Nahshon.鈥疞eiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers,鈥�2009.

鈥淲hat Is Jewish Theatre?鈥濃�疛ewish Theatre: A Global View. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009.

鈥淢aurice Schwartz Presents:鈥疶he Dybbuk鈥�(1921)鈥� (in Hebrew). In鈥疉l Na Tegarshuni:鈥疉 Collection of Essays on S. An-ski鈥檚鈥疶he Dybbuk, edited by Shimon Levy and Dorit Yerushalmi. Tel Aviv University Press, 2009.

EXHIBITION CATALOGS

From the Bowery to Broadway: New York鈥檚 Yiddish Theater. New York: Museum of the City of New York / Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2016.

鈥淪hylock and His Daughter鈥痑t the Yiddish Art Theatre,鈥濃�痠n鈥疊eing Shylock,鈥痚d. Werner Hanak-Lettner.鈥疺ienna: Jewish Museum Vienna, 2009.

Stars, Strikes, and the Yiddish Stage: The Story of the Hebrew Actors鈥� Union, 1899鈥�2005.鈥疦ew York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2009.

ARTICLES

“Revoicing the Forbidden: The Yishuv, Yiddish Films, and Hebrew Dubbing.” AJS Review, 2023.

“Behind the Backstage Hotel Lie the Dreams of Israel鈥檚 Socialist Past.” Renaissance (UK), Spring 2023.

“The Revolutionary Spirit of the Dybbuk.” Renaissance (UK), Summer 2022.

“Entre el Arte y la Pol铆tica: El Repertorio del Teatro ARTEF de Nueva York (1925鈥�1940), Estudios Progresistas en las Am茅ricas.” CEHTI-Imago Mundi, 2022.

“Tevye der Shvartzer Khazn.” Tablet, June 17, 2022. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/tevye-der-shvartzer-khazn

“Theater.” In Legacy, edited by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Tamara Sztyma, 177鈥�201. Warsaw: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2021.

“Maurice Schwartz.” Oxford Bibliographies (online), 2019.

“A Hebrew Take on Shylock on the New York Stage.” European Judaism 51:2 (Autumn 2018): 159鈥�164.

RESEARCH

Yiddish theater, American theater, Israeli theater, and drama

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