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Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

by Heather S. Nathans

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"While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America.

About Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

"While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, critics, managers, and theatrical shareholders, and often tied their involvement in these endeavors to the patriotic rhetoric of the young republic as they struggled to establish themselves in the new nation. Examining play texts, theatrical reviews, political discourse, and public performances of Jewish rights and rituals, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans argues that Jewish stage types…

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