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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 July 2026
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350320970
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages128 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Short description:
A historically contextualized original English translation of a 1935 Yiddish play by journalist and playwright, Leyb Malakh, which depicts the racial injustice of the Scottsboro Affair that unfolded in 1930s Alabama.
MoreLong description:
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In their English translation of the Yiddish play Mississippi, Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint have undertaken a work of cultural salvage. Penned in 1935 by Polish-Jewish playwright Leib Malach, the play was performed on the Warsaw stage by the experimental Yiddish theatre company ""Young Theater"" (Yung Teatr) led by legendary director and drama theoretician Mikhl Weichert. Malach and Weichert were keen to depict a dramatic episode from contemporary life that reflected their humanistic and leftist political ideas as well as avant-garde theatrical practices.
Mississippi is a fictionalized retelling of the Scottsboro Affair, which began with the wrongful arrest of nine African American youths in Alabama in 1931. The play demonstrates how important it was to Yiddish writers of the 1920s and 1930s to grapple with the persecution of Black people in America. In her introductory essay, Quint treats the political aspirations that animated Malach and Weichert, and the vulnerability felt by European Jewry that it saw reflected in the experience of Black Americans.
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List of Contributors
Introduction: ""Aren't Jews in Many European Countries just like Blacks?"":
The Yiddish Mississippi
by Alyssa Quint
Mississippi: a Play in Three Acts
by Leib Malach
English translation by Ellen Perecman and Alyssa Quint
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