Yiddish theatre
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Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Ashkenazi Jews in the Yiddish language. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic r
Molly Picon (center) in Bublichki, 1938
Report on Jewish Theatre – The New York Times, 29 November 1868, page 5
Thalia Theatre poster (Josef Kroger, New York, 1897)
WPA poster, Boston, 1938
Yiddish
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Yiddish, historically referred to as Judeo-German or Jewish German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, an
Yiddish theatre
…Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Ashkenazi Jews in the Yiddish language. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist…
The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria
The calligraphic segment in the Worms Machzor (a Hebrew prayer book). The Yiddish text is in red.
The South-West Yiddish account of the life of Seligmann Brunschwig von Dürmenach describes, among other things, the anti-Semitic events of the revolutionary year 1848. In the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.
A page from the Shemot Devarim (lit. 'Names of Things'), a Yiddish–Hebrew–Latin–German dictionary and thesaurus, published by Elia Levita in 1542