Di case, lingue e finestre: Ida Kaminska, attrice yiddish

• Autores: Giulia Randone
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 1, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: NUMERO SPECIALE Finestre: sguardi e riflessi, trasparenze e opacità), págs. 156-180
• Idioma: italiano
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  • This paper aims to explore the artistic biography of Ida Kaminska � the leading figure of the Yiddish theatre in Poland in the 20th century � proposing a new metaphor for the theatrical experience of the Ashkenazi Jews and a different use of the audio-visual sources. First, I will explain why we can look at the Yiddish theatre as a house (heym) with a lot of windows, then I will examine Kaminska�s performance in three different films � On a heym (Without a Home, 1939), Obchod na korze (The Shop on Main Street, 1965) and The Angel Levine (1970) � through this peculiar metaphor. Even if they are not recordings of the theatrical performance, these documents could help us to understand some of the features of Kaminska�s art (i.e., the focus on identity, otherness and Yiddish language) and how they changed after the Holocaust.