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  • The Other Emma
    Sharon Gloger Friedman
    In 1880, Rose Litkin, a nine-year-old orphan from the tenements of the Lower East Side, is adopted by Lucien Boyesten, a widowed banker seeking a companion for his spoiled ten-year-old daughter, Emma. Rose is whisked away to Boston-to a sister who resents and torments her-and struggles to find her place in a family where secrets abound. Eight years later, impoverished and fleei...
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  • In Freedom’s Light
    Sharon Gloger Friedman
    It is 1785 and enforcers of the Spanish Inquisition are still hunting down and torturing conversos-Jews who outwardly converted to Christianity, but who practiced their Judaism in secret. When nineteen-year-old converso Anica Amselem refuses a cut of pork in Valencia’s marketplace, she and her husband Efren come under the suspicion of the Church as secret Jews, endangering thei...
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  • Modern American Drama
    Cheryl Black / Sharon Friedman
    The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, cult...
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    54,59 €

  • Ashes
    Sharon Gloger Friedman
    A Jewish Family’s Epic of Hope, Tragedy, and SurvivalEaster Sunday, 1903 ushered in three days of government-sanctioned brutality on the Jews of Kishinev, Russia. In the aftermath of slaughter, rape, and destruction, Meyer and Sadie Raisky escape to New York City with their thirteen-year-old daughter, Miriam. Their home and business gone, reeling from devastating personal trage...
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  • Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works
    Sharon Friedman
    Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideo...
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    57,15 €