Imagining Europe: The Popular Arts of American Jewish Ethnography

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

2001

“Practically everyone has seen the prize-winning musical about the lovable people in that little village in Old Russia called Anetevka [sic]. Well, as far as we’re concerned, ‘Fiddler’ made a goof!” Mad magazine’s irreverent parody of the Broadway show (1964) and film (1971) “takes this famous musical about the problems of people who had nothing…

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Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

b. 1942

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is a Toronto-born professor of performance studies at New York University. She received her doctorate in folklore from Indiana University in 1972. A filmmaker, author, editor, and folklorist, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has produced works about ethnography, food, tourism, and museums.

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