The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960

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dc.contributor.advisorShain, Miltonen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBelling, Veronicaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-26T14:03:38Z
dc.date.available2014-12-26T14:03:38Z
dc.date.issued2003en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation sets out to investigate the history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Yiddish theatre first emerged in Jassy in Rumania in 1876. However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South Africa. This dissertation attempts to answer the question as to why of all Eastern Europe's diasporas, Yiddish theatre at no stage put down permanent roots in South Africa. It aims to prove that the survival of Yiddish theatre was entirely dependent on the survival of the Yiddish language. Thus the fate of Yiddish theatre in South Africa was influenced by the early timing of the formative immigration, between 1890 and 1914, the common origins of the immigrants in Lithuania and White Russia, and their educational and cultural poverty. These factors were reinforced by the exclusive adherence of the Anglo-German Jewish establishment and the vast majority of the immigrants, to Zionism and the Hebrew revival. Yiddish was unequivocally rejected, so that it never featured in the construction of South African Jewish identity. Finally the Quota Act of 1930, reinforced by the Alien's Act of 1937, put a total halt to Eastern European Jewish immigration, the lifeblood of Yiddish theatre.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBelling, V. (2003). <i>The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10084en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBelling, Veronica. <i>"The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10084en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBelling, V. 2003. The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Belling, Veronica AB - This dissertation sets out to investigate the history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa. Yiddish theatre first emerged in Jassy in Rumania in 1876. However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South Africa. This dissertation attempts to answer the question as to why of all Eastern Europe's diasporas, Yiddish theatre at no stage put down permanent roots in South Africa. It aims to prove that the survival of Yiddish theatre was entirely dependent on the survival of the Yiddish language. Thus the fate of Yiddish theatre in South Africa was influenced by the early timing of the formative immigration, between 1890 and 1914, the common origins of the immigrants in Lithuania and White Russia, and their educational and cultural poverty. These factors were reinforced by the exclusive adherence of the Anglo-German Jewish establishment and the vast majority of the immigrants, to Zionism and the Hebrew revival. Yiddish was unequivocally rejected, so that it never featured in the construction of South African Jewish identity. Finally the Quota Act of 1930, reinforced by the Alien's Act of 1937, put a total halt to Eastern European Jewish immigration, the lifeblood of Yiddish theatre. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960 TI - The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10084 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBelling V. The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10084en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentKaplan Centre for Jewish Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherJewish Civilizationen_ZA
dc.titleThe history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960en_ZA
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