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"""Offering a deep dive into Ben Hecht’s explicitly Jewish and Zionist pageants of the 1940s, Garrett Eisler has rescued these compelling and star-studded spectacles from their previous consignment to the footnotes of Hecht’s long and illustrious career. Richly detailed and documented – including the full-text of four out-of-print or previously unpublished scripts – the book vividly evokes the period when a handful of Jewish theatre artists, galvanized to action by the Holocaust, used the tools of their trade to influence public opinion, and in so doing assert their Jewishness to a degree never before seen on American stages."" -- Henry Bial * author of Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen * ""Ben Hecht’s Theatre of Jewish Protest is an admirably thoughtful and thorough exploration of Hecht’s four plays focusing on the Holocaust. I highly endorse it."" -- Norman J. Fedder * distinguished professor emeritus of theatre at Kansas State University * ""A welcome contribution to the growing body of research on Ben Hecht's work with the Bergson Group during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath."" -- Edna Nahshon * author of New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway *"

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GARRETT EISLER has taught in theatre programs at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the New School’s Eugene Lang College, Brooklyn College, and Boston University. He is the editor of Twentieth-Century American Dramatists: Fifth Series.

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