{"id":1323,"date":"2016-04-18T17:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/from-our-friends-at-the-museum-of-the-city-of-new-3\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T19:08:39","slug":"from-our-friends-at-the-museum-of-the-city-of-new-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/from-our-friends-at-the-museum-of-the-city-of-new-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFrom\u00a0God of Vengeance\u00a0to\u00a0Indecent\u201d Tuesday, April 19 at 7:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1323 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/18\/from-our-friends-at-the-museum-of-the-city-of-new-3\/attachment\/1324\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5ua6wTxBJ1r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5ua6wTxBJ1r3qmd1o1_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5ua6wTxBJ1r3qmd1o1_1280-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5ua6wTxBJ1r3qmd1o1_1280-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/tumblr_o5ua6wTxBJ1r3qmd1o1_1280.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>From our friends at the Museum of the City of New York.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcny.org\/event\/god-vengeance-indecent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From\u00a0<i>God of Vengeance\u00a0<\/i>to<i>\u00a0Indecent<\/i><\/a>\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Tuesday, April 19 at 7:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On<br \/>\nFebruary 19, 1923, theatergoers witnessed Broadway\u2019s first lesbian kiss at the<br \/>\nEnglish-language premiere of the\u00a0<i>God of Vengeance<\/i>, a play by the<br \/>\nPolish-born, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. Days later, the Vice Squad of the NYPD<br \/>\narrested and successfully prosecuted the entire cast on obscenity charges.<br \/>\nAsch\u2019s provocative drama and the legal controversy surrounding it has inspired<br \/>\ntheater artists ever since. This May, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Paula<br \/>\nVogel\u2019s new play Indecent, which captures the drama surrounding the 1923<br \/>\nproduction of\u00a0<i>God of Vengeance<\/i>, will premiere at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vineyardtheatre.org\/indecent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vineyard Theater<\/a>\u00a0in downtown Manhattan. Join<br \/>\nVogel and Rebecca Taichman, the director of\u00a0<i>Indecent<\/i>, for a<br \/>\nconversation about the radical possibilities of Yiddish theater with noted<br \/>\nscholars Marvin Carlson and Joel Berkowitz.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Paula<br \/>\nVogel<\/b>,<br \/>\nPulitzer Prize-winning author of\u00a0<i>Indecent<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Rebecca Taichman<\/b>, Director of\u00a0<i>Indecent<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Marvin Carlson<\/b>, The Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre,<br \/>\nComparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center<br \/>\n<b>Joel Berkowitz\u00a0<\/b>(moderator), Professor of Foreign Languages &amp; Literature<br \/>\nat the University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n<p><b>Reception<br \/>\nand exhibition viewing to follow!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Register<br \/>\nonline at <a href=\"http:\/\/mcny.org\/programs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mcny.org\/programs<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our friends at the Museum of the City of New York. \u201cFrom\u00a0God of Vengeance\u00a0to\u00a0Indecent\u201d Tuesday, April 19 at 7:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York On February 19, 1923, theatergoers witnessed Broadway\u2019s first lesbian kiss at the English-language premiere of the\u00a0God of Vengeance, a play by the Polish-born, Yiddish writer Sholem Asch. 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