Claire Solomon is the author of scholarship and fiction on a range of topics: upsetting musical comedies, yoga as world literature, literary prostitutes, crows, anarchist heroines, Manic Pixie Dream Girls, new music, translation theory, the first soprano to fly in a hot air balloon, and a college that gets overly excited about AI. She is an associate professor of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Oberlin College.
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Claire Solomon
Oberlin College
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Review of Paula Ansaldo’s “Broyt mit Teater.” Historia del Teatro Judío en Argentina
Claire Solomon
Paula Ansaldo’s book brings about a long-awaited return of Yiddish and the IFT to their rightful place in Argentine theater history and Jewish theater history.
Feb 26, 2025
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Musical Comedy as Compromise Formation: Judío and Judía (1926), by Ivo Pelay
Claire Solomon
Ivo Pelay’s 1926 plays Judío and Judía, “Jew” and “Jewess,” thematize anxiety not only about the Argentineity of Jews, but also about the Jewishness of Argentina: the promise of assimilation and the threat of subversion.
May 02, 2021