Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-427) and index.
1. Purim Plays -- 2. Dramas of the Enlightenment -- 3. Avrom Goldfadn -- 4. "Vagabond Stars" -- 5. Shund and Popular Theater -- 6. Jacob Gordin -- 7. New Repertory -- 8. Art Theaters -- 9. Soviet Yiddish State Theaters: Goset -- 10. Twentieth-Century America -- 11. Poland Between the Wars -- 12. In the Ghettos and Camps -- 13. Yiddish Theater Since the War -- 14. Yiddish Theater in America Since the War