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Elmer Rice

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American Jewish playwright, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene.

Estados Unidos

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Biografía

American Jewish playwright, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene. In Jewish World Records, Elmer Rice is connected to the record “First Jewish Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,” based on the stored achievement of Pulitzer Prize for Drama — Street Scene, 1929. Elmer Rice won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene, a landmark play of New York tenement life. Jewish recipient chronologies list Rice as the first Jewish winner in the Drama category. The Pulitzer Prizes identifies Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice as the 1929 Drama winner. JINFO's Jewish Pulitzer Drama chronology begins with Elmer Rice in 1929; JTA contemporaneously and retrospectively identifies Rice as an American-Jewish/Jewish playwright.

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Ghetto Pastoral: Street Scene, Jews, and the Transformation of American Folklore — academic lecture by Naomi Graber on the cultural significance of Elmer Rice and Street Scene, with later contributions by Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes. Scholarly context; NOT a comprehensive life biography of Rice.

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Récords de Elmer Rice

Portrait of playwright Elmer Rice around 1920.

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First Jewish Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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Elmer Rice

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12 May 1929

Elmer Rice, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein in New York City, became the first verified Jewish recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama when his play Street Scene won in 1929. The play premiered at the Playhouse Theatre on 10 January 1929 and portrays the lives of immigrant and working-class neighbours outside a New York tenement. Rice's drama explored tension, aspiration and prejudice through the intertwined experiences of its urban characters. The official Pulitzer Prize archive confirms Rice and Street Scene as the Drama winner for 1929.

País representado: Estados Unidos
Lugar del logro: Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Fecha del logro: 12 de mayo de 1929

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