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The “Tsadik from Plonsk” and “Goldenyu” Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher’s Israeli Comic Repertoire | Diego Rotman

The “Tsadik from Plonsk” and “Goldenyu” Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher’s Israeli Comic Repertoire

Citation:

Rotman, Diego . “The “Tsadik from Plonsk” and “Goldenyu” Political Satire in Dzigan and Shumacher’s Israeli Comic Repertoire”. Studies in Contemporary Jewry A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World, no. 29 (2016). http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190646127.003.0011.

Abstract:

This chapter examines the career and political satire of comic duo Shimen Dzigan and Yisroel Shumacher. Their performances dealt with issues that reflected the major topics that preoccupied Jews of their era: the vagaries of making a living, the state of the economy, world and local politics, marriage, Jewish tradition, antisemitism, and current events. After they emigrated to Israel, their repertoire expanded to include such issues as the individual confronting the Israeli bureaucracy, the question of Yiddish versus Hebrew, the Jewish-Arab conflict, relations between diaspora Jewry (especially American Jews) and Israel, the memory of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. The chapter analyzes two pairs of skits that focused on two prime ministers: David Ben-Gurion in “ Der nayer dybbek” (The New Dybbuk, 1957) and “In der yeshive fun plonsker rebbe” (In the Plonsker Rebbe’s Yeshiva; 1961); and Golda Meir in the monologue “Goldenyu” (1971) and the skit “Golde baym poypst” (Golda Visits the Pope; 1973).

 

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