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	Yiddish theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Yiddish theatre was an immediate hit with the broad masses of Jews, was generally liked and admired by Jewish intellectuals and many Gentile intellectuals, a small but socially powerful portion of the Jewish community, centered among Orthodox and Hasidic Jews remained opposed to it.
		Yiddish theatre is said to have two artistic golden ages, the first in the realistic plays produced in New York City in the late 1800s, and the second in the political and artistic plays written and performed in Russia and New York in the 1920s.
		Yiddish theatre was also highly influential on what is still known as Jewish humor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yiddish_theater (3425 words)

	Yiddish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Western Yiddish dialect began to decline in the 18th century, as The Enlightenment and the Haskalah led to the German view that Yiddish was a corrupt form of their language.
		Yiddish emerged as the national language of a large Jewish community in Eastern Europe that rejected Zionism and sought to obtain Jewish cultural autonomy in Europe.
		Yiddish is also widely spoken in smaller Haredi communities in such the ones as London, Antwerp and Montreal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yiddish (3324 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Yiddish literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Yiddish literature is the literature created by speakers of the Yiddish language, a Jewish language.
		Solomon Rabinowitz, better known as Sholom Aleichem (1859–1916), is known as one of the greatest Yiddish authors and humorists, the Yiddish equivalent of Mark Twain.
		A rich literature was being published, Yiddish theater and film were booming, and it had even achieved status as one of the official languages of the Belorussian SSR.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Yiddish_literature (194 words)

	Yiddish Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Yiddish theater originated in the traditional Purim festival plays (amateur theatricals derived from the biblical Book of Esther) that were enacted in Yiddish by the Ashkenazi Jews of northern and eastern Europe especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.
		The founding of a modern, professional Yiddish theater is credited to Abraham GOLDFADEN, who in 1876 provided dialogue and continuity for the presentations of the Broder Singers, a traveling troupe, in Iasi, Romania.
		The "second golden epoch," international in scope, refers to the art-theater movement within the Yiddish theater that sprang up in the first decade of the 20th century and reached the height of its influence during the 1920s.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/theater.html (313 words)

	Judaism 101: Yiddish
		Yiddish was never a part of Sephardic Jewish culture (the culture of the Jews of Spain, Portugal, the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East).
		Yiddish is referred to as "mame loshn" ("loshn" rhymes with "caution"), which means "mother tongue," although it is not entirely clear whether this is a term of affection or derision.
		Yiddish was viewed in much the same way that people today view Ebonics (in fact, I have heard Yiddish jokingly referred to as "Hebonics"), with one significant difference: Ebonics is criticized mostly by outsiders; Yiddish was criticized mostly by Jews who had spoken it as their native language.
	www.jewfaq.org /yiddish.htm (4712 words)

	NYPL Digital Gallery \| Yiddish Theatre Placards: Buenos Aires and New York
		It was in New York that Yiddish theater blossomed, reaching the height of its appeal and influence during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th, when Jewish immigration was at its peak.
		With immigration drastically curtailed and assimilation all the rage, New York Yiddish theater between the wars lacked the authenticity of its glory days before World War I. From the vulgarity of the commercial nostalgia-peddlers to the high-minded kitsch of the modernists, it was at best a silver age.
		Yiddish theaters had existed there since the beginning of the 20th century, but, controlled by mobsters and patronized by the city's rollicking Jewish underworld, they had taken on something of the character of the burlesque house and, accordingly, were given a wide berth by members of the official, respectable, larger Jewish community.
	digitalgallery.nypl.org /nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=222 (652 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - History & Community: Yiddish Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Numerous theater people, including Goldfaden's troupe, immigrated to the United States after 1883, when the Yiddish theater was banned by Alexander III in the despotic aftermath of the assassination of Alexander II.
		In effect, Yiddish theater arrived in New York City in its infancy and was nurtured there at the turn of the century by its greatest audience--the largest, most heterogeneous aggregation of Jews in the world.
		The theater came to enjoy an unrivaled position on the Lower East Side; it became a major cultural institution, in which all the problems, hopes, and dreams of immigrant Jews were dramatized.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /history_community/Modern/ModernReligionCulture/YiddishTheater.htm (1087 words)

	Variety Stage: Yiddish Playscripts
		In a world of upheaval and cultural transition, the folkways embedded in Yiddish theater were a source of stability, and predictably evoked responses from audiences.
		Yiddish plays were usually commercial ventures and were designed to bring in the greatest number of spectators by giving each member of the audience-- "Moyshe," as the typical patron was called by Yiddish theater people--what Moyshe already knew he liked.
		The Yiddish theater was centralized in New York, although its influence radiated throughout American urban centers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/vshtml/vsyide.html (1526 words)

	Chapter Twelve : Yiddish Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The origins of modern Yiddish theater are no older than the 1860s in Eastern Europe and the founder is acknowledged to be Avrom Goldfaden.
		Most of the early Yiddish theater was popular drama with a little comedy, a little melodrama, a little song and dance to make everyone in the theater happy.
		The push for a higher quality Yiddish theater was led by Jacob Gordin 1853-1909 and later, by Maurice Schwartz, who founded the Yiddish Art Theater which performed wonderful serious drama into the 1950s and produced several Yiddish films.
	www.laits.utexas.edu /gottesman/theatreindex.html (236 words)

	What is Yiddish? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Yiddish language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Although it is not a national language, Yiddish is spoken by about 4 million Jews all over the world, especially in Argentina, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Romania, and the U.S. Before the annihilation of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, Yiddish was the tongue of more than 11 million people.
		Yiddish, although it is not a national language, is spoken by Jews all over the world.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/yiddish.html (155 words)

	Yiddish Theater in America
		During the week, he worked as a cigarette maker in a sweatshop, where he heard his fellow workers sing songs from the Yiddish theater they had enjoyed in the old country.
		As historian Andrea most observed, although melodrama was the preferred form of Yiddish theater, audiences respectfully attended these "cultural" plays "as long as their favorite actor was starring in the title role and a few song and dance numbers were interspersed with the more serious plot."
		While the Thomashefskys were not the only important Yiddish theater impresarios, they were the most celebrated.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/Yiddish.html (873 words)

	Yiddish Theater - New York - Theater - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		THERE are few traces left of the boisterous Yiddish theater that reigned along lower Second Avenue during the first half of the 20th century.
		Maurice Schwartz's vaunted Yiddish Art Theater, at the southwest corner of 12th Street, is now a multiplex.
		Greenbaum said, was because he was awaiting approval from the boards of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, which acts as the union's burial society and maintains a small office in the building, and the Yiddish Artists and Friends-Actors Club.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/03/19/theater/newsandfeatures/19simo.html?ex=1300424400&en=e2e2413053da66ce&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (897 words)

	Luba Kadison Buloff, 99, Last Survivor of Yiddish Theater Company
		Yiddish actress Luba Kadison Buloff passed away on May 4 in her apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side at the age of 99.
		Born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, the last surviving member of the renowned Yiddish theater company the Vilna Troupe, she was the embodiment of a sophisticated and daring theatrical tradition.
		She is remembered for her moving performance as the long-suffering wife in the 1951 Yiddish adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" at Brooklyn's Parkway Theater (a performance that prompted critic George Ross to write in Commentary magazine that Buloff returned Miller's play to "its Yiddish original").
	www.forward.com /articles/7761 (928 words)

	Yiddish.net - A comprehensive collection of links about Yiddish language, theater, art, music, literature, and culture! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Yiddish Virtual Library (Duesseldorf, Germany) - Introduction to Yiddish in the German language from the University of Duesseldorf, Germany.
		Yiddish far rayznde (English) - Travelang.com's "Yiddish for Travellers" multimedia dictionary -- or the beginnings of one, at least.
		L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books - Showcasing the lives and work of the late great writer and journalist S. Shneiderman and his wife Eileen, and the writer's book collection that is now part of the University of Maryland Library.
	yiddish.net (4812 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Habima Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HABIMA THEATER [Habima Theater], [Heb.,=the stage], the national theater of Israel.
		Founded in 1917 in Moscow by Nahum Zemach and at first affiliated with the Moscow Art Theatre, it was one of the first Hebrew-language theaters.
		In 1926 the company left the Soviet Union and toured extensively for several years before settling in Palestine in 1931, and it was designated the national theater in 1958.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HabimaTh.asp (254 words)

	Campus Times
		But I was equally upset to learn that like the dying Yiddish language, the "influence" of Yiddish theater is all that is left of its legacy, as there are very few direct traces to Yiddish culture in pop culture.
		Although most of O'Brien's speech concerned the history of Yiddish theater and little of it involved its influence on American society, I found the growth of the theater to be extremely interesting.
		She explained how Yiddish theater was founded by Avram Goldfaden in the late 19th century, performing biblical operettas influenced by the German opera in Romania.
	www.campustimes.org /media/paper371/news/2005/09/29/ArtsAndEntertainment/Obrien.Traces.History.Of.Yiddish.Theater-1002668.shtml (331 words)

	Folksbiene Yiddish Theater: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
		The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, the longest-running Yiddish theatre company in the world, was formed in 1915 as a response to the light, escapist fare then on offer to immigrant audiences, and its commitment to high-quality Yiddish-language theater continued through the decades.
		During their tenure, the Folksbiene became a bastion for Yiddish theater and culture.
		"Folksbiene Yiddish Theater" is a co-production with City Lore.
	www.soundportraits.org /on-air/folksbiene_yiddish_theater (250 words)

	Who's who at the National Center for Jewish Cutural Arts
		He acted in regional theater in Florida, returning to NY in 1980, honing his craft by working for years in JCC's, Y's and senior citizen centers, performing for the elderly who couldn't make it to the theater.
		Teaching Yiddish language, literature, culture, traditions, customs, rituals, holidays, songs, folklore, and drama to hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish students at Columbia University as well as at Oxford University, where I spent many summers, was something that gave me a great source of inspiration, an impetus to be creative, and unbounded joy.
		Because of the lack of curricular material for Yiddish courses in the United States, as well as throughout the world, wherever Yiddish is offered, I have researched, collected, developed, adapted and wrote several text-books for each level of Yiddish language study.
	www.2jewish.org /whoswho.htm (2422 words)

	The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול
		The Yiddish Voice had numerous personal ties to Leahke and her family, and we were fortunate to present her on the air through two interviews in the early 1990's.
		Yiddish American Digital Archive, featuring streaming realaudio clips of Yiddish recordings from various sources, including an exclusive special collection of his grandfather Henry Berman's radio airchecks restored from "acetate, glass, and shellac disks".
		Shneiderman and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books, a web site/exhibition showcasing the lives and work of the late great writer and journalist S. Shneiderman and his wife Eileen, and the writer's book collection that is now part of the University of Maryland Library.
	www.yv.org (9346 words)

	Secular Jewish culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Though not strictly secular, the Yiddish works of authors like Shalom Aleichem (whose collected works amounted to 28 volumes) and Isaac Bashevis Singer (winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize), form their own canon, focusing on the Jewish experience in both Eastern Europe, and in America.
		Within a decade, Goldfaden and others brought Yiddish theater to Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, New York City, and other cities with significan Ashkenazaic populations.
		Between 1890 and 1940, over a dozen Yiddish theatre groups existed in New York City alone, performing original plays, musicals, and Yiddish translations of theatrical works and opera.
	secular-jewish-culture.iqnaut.net (1530 words)

	NPR : Project Recalls Yiddish Theater Legends
		Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky were the most popular performers of the Yiddish Theater era.
		This weekend, Tilson Thomas is taking a look at the world of his grandparents, who were superstars of another era: Yiddish Theater greats Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky.
		The pair, born in Russia, became legends in Yiddish Theater, a genre they helped define.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4601242 (295 words)

	Lillian Lux Burstein, 86, Yiddish Theater Giant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Burstein is best known for the musical acts she produced and staged as the matriarch of The Four Bursteins, a troupe composed of herself, her husband — famed actor Pesach'ke (Paul) Burstein — and their twin children, Michael and Susan.
		With his encouragement she began assisting on Yiddish radio as a child; at 14 she was hired as a chorus girl at the Second Avenue Theatre, the biggest and brightest of the 14 theaters that made up the Lower East Side's Yiddish Broadway.
		They soon brought their children into the act: Susan, known as "Zisele" on the Second Avenue theater circuit, was touted as "the world's youngest ventriloquist," and Michael ("Motele") eventually took what he learned as a child in the The Four Bursteins and became an acclaimed Broadway actor, known today as Mike Burstyn.
	www.forward.com /main/article.php?ref=200506161039 (837 words)

	RLAJT - International Workshop on Yiddish Theatre, Drama and Performance
		"Yiddish Theatre in Vienna from 1880 to 1938"
		"The Last Years of the Goldfaden Yiddish Theater at 'Pomul Verde' in Iasi, Romania (an Eyewitness Account)"
		"Echoes of the Yiddish Stage in Contemporary Jewish-American Drama"
	members.tripod.com /~jtheater/oxford.htm (301 words)

	The Yiddish Voice דאָס ייִדישע קול (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		February 18, 2004 Interview with Lilke Meisner, Yiddish writer, and the leader of the Yiddish Culture Club of Los Angeles.
		1995 Colloquy on Yiddish Culture, a Council of Europe document, captures a session by the Committee on Culture and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, seeking to comprehend and deal with Yiddish language and culture in Europe in the early and mid- 90's.
		Yiddish in Czernovitz by JTA (Jan. 27, 2003):
	www.yiddishvoice.com (9346 words)

	Press Quotes
		Eight virtuosic musicians bring klezmer back to the Main Space at the Knitting Factory, including new tunes and old favorites...
		"With influences that range from old school Arabic music to Latin jazz to Motown, Metropolitan Klezmer interprets aged Yiddish favorites with a mixture of tradition and irreverence.
		With the incredible variety of songs and styles, and the infectious joy that infuses their performances, you won't need to go to Vegas this season for a show."
	www.metropolitanklezmer.com /quotes_metro.html (606 words)

	JMWC: Research Guide in Jewish Music
		Bibliography of Jewish music periodicals in Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages Good source of listings on Israeli periodicals.
		Abbi Wood, currently completing a PhD thesis on Yiddish folk song in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK, has compiled a bibliography on Yiddish music.
		Jewish music in Poland between the world wars 1992.Publishing in Yiddish in 1970 on same topic, Fater (Isaschar) writes of Yiddish songs and choruses with words in romanized text.
	www.jmwc.org /jmwc_resmusic.html (2027 words)

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