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Tosca, Giacomo Puccini
Pictured here is a program from a production of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca by the Vilna Yiddish Opera in Yiddish accompanied by Vilna's Symphony Orchestra. Tosca, which premiered in Rome in 1900, is based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language…
American-Yiddish Dramatic Literature II: H. Leivik, Osip Dymov, and Leon Kobrin
Later heirs of Jacob Gordin's realism was the poet-playwright H. Leivik and the playwright Leon Kobrin.
H.Leivik (1888-1962)
Leivik Halpern was born near Minsk in present-day Belarus on December 25, 1888. He received a traditional education and…
Ida Kaminska, 1899-1980
Although acting since she was a child, Ida Kaminska came of age as a director in interwar Poland. In 1918, she married the actor and director Zygmunt Turkow, a product of Polish theater schools.Together, they founded the VYKT (Varshever Yidisher…
Danton's Death, George Büchner
Written by Büchner in 1835 but not staged until 1902, Danton's Deathfollows the story of Georges Danton, a leader of the French Revolution, during the lull between the first and second terrors. The play depicts Georges Danton who created the office…
The Jazz Singer, Samson Raphaelson
Ida Kaminska’s Yiddish rendition of The Jazz Singer was presumably based on the movie or play of the same name by Samson Raphaelson, adapted from one of his short stories, "The Day of Atonement" (1925).Kaminska adapted the source for the Yiddish…
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