Theater Yiddish

The theater Yiddish is a Jewish theatrical style created in 1876 with Iaşi in Romania and which developed, independently of the Jewish religion , at the Ashkénaze S of Eastern Europe. This tradition is as theatrically particular of the culture Yiddish, as can the being the Klezmer in music.

In 1876, the Ukrainian Jew Abraham Goldfaden founds the first professional troop of theater Yiddish in Romania. The following year, its troop is an enormous success in Bucharest and in ten years, Goldfaden and its disciples bring the theater Yiddish to Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, but this style is soon also spread with New York and other cities comprising of important communities ashkénazes following the waves of immigrations of Europeans around 1900.

The principal type-setters are Aaron Lebedeff, Alex Olshanetsky, Hermann Wohl, Anshel Schorr, Louis Gilrod, Isadore Lillian…

In France, the the most played parts are the Play of Hotsmakh of Itsik Manger (according to the witch of Goldfaden), Golem of H. Leivic or Dibbouk of Sholem Year-Ski, but most known a violin is undoubtedly the famous musical comedy on the roof according to Sholem Aleichem, in which Ivan Rebroff was made famous thanks to the song “Ah! If I were rich…”

Principal playwrights

  • Sholem Aleichem

  • Shulem Anski
  • Sholem Asch
  • Abraham Goldfaden
  • H. Leivic
  • Itsik To eat
  • Isaac-Leibush Peretz
  • Hersh Leib Sigheter
  • Aaron Zeitlin

Principal actors

See too

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