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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Yiddish theatre
		He began his career as a child actor in Yiddish theatre and appeared on Broadway in plays such as Once More, with Feeling (1958) and A Shot in the Dark (1962).
		87-104); Brigitte Dalinger, Yiddish Theatre in Vienna, 1880-1938 (107-17...
		Theatre: On the Fringe Escape From Pterodactyl Island The Pleasance Gate 45 Young Vic Studio T he Yiddish Queen Lear Southwark Playhouse
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Yiddish+theatre (1189 words)

	Yiddish Theatre
		Another current that led equally to professional Yiddish theatre was a tradition resembling that of the troubadors or Minnesänger, apparently growing out of the music associated with Jewish weddings, and often involving singers who also functioned as cantors in synagogues.
		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.
	encycl.opentopia.com /term/Yiddish_Theatre (3405 words)

	Shtetl, Yiddish Language and Culture - Theater, Bibliography
		Burko, F. The Soviet Yiddish theatre in the twenties [microform], 1978.
		Kaufman, R. The Yiddish theater in New York and the immigrant Jewish community [microform]: theater as secular ritual.
		Miller, J. The Resident Yiddish Theater in Detroit From 1920 to 1937, 1965.
	www.ibiblio.org /yiddish/art/thea-bib.htm (1487 words)

	Culture and festivals - Yiddish Theatre
		Yiddish theatre was the great popular entertainment of the Jewish East End.
		Yiddish was the language spoken by Jews across Eastern Europe.
		Modern Yiddish theatre developed in the 1860s in Eastern Europe, mostly as a result of the efforts of one man, Abraham Goldfaden, who built on a well-established folk culture.
	www.movinghere.org.uk /galleries/histories/jewish/culture/theatre1.htm (349 words)

	Judaism 101: Yiddish Language and Culture
		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 (4747 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - News
		The shmendrick is the nincompoop of Yiddish lore, a pipsqueak.
		Among the hand-puppet theatres that cropped up in New York during the 1920s was the Modicut theatre, an offshoot of the flourishing Yiddish theatrical-literary culture.
		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.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_list.aspx?articleGroupID=57 (3271 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)

	NTU Info Centre: Yiddish theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazaic Jewish community.
		Yiddish theatre in London began in 1886, and flourished until the mid-1930s.
		Yiddish theatre is said to have two artistic golden ages.
	www.nowtryus.net /article:Yiddish_theatre (2533 words)

	"Remembering How the Yiddish Theater Turned Into Broadway - Forward.com"
		The event, Broadway Salutes Yiddish: A Benefit for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, is scheduled for June 12 at Town Hall and will consist of two parts.
		While Yiddish performers didn’t invent the melodramatic style that became their hallmark, it’s easy to see how their over-the-top mannerisms might have reinforced similar tendencies in English-language theater, especially the kind that made its way to Broadway via vaudeville.
		It was kosher, and it was delicious.” The decline of Yiddish theater in the 1950s and ’60s eventually led Finkel to look elsewhere for work; and since landing his first television role in the CBS series “Picket Fences” back in the early ’90s, he has become a bona fide English-language star.
	www.forward.com /articles/remembering-how-the-yiddish-theater-turned-into-br (921 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Yiddish Theatre-Overview
		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 "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.
		Abroad, the best-known groups are the Polish Yiddish State Theater, organized (1948) by Ida Kaminska (1899-1980), and the Romanian Yiddish State Theater.
	new.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=374 (438 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - Hats of Jerusalem playing with Yiddish Aroma
		A Yiddish theatre troupe in Tel Aviv prepares for a premiÃ¨re.
		"Yiddish Aroma" explores how the troupe's performers and technicians were drawn to Yiddish culture.
		We see that, in a departure from the past, Yiddish is now received favorably in Israel not only by older people but by youth as well.
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/6864 (249 words)

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		This means that even devotees of Yiddish theatre will recognize fewer of the performers' names than on the rosters of the American Yiddish vaudeville compilations.
		Yiddish superstar Molly Picon sings the latter's "Tsipke" and Lucy Levin, known for her role in Zayn vaybs lubovnik, presents a sassy rendition of his "Di Primadonna," about a singer who knows how to escape the unwelcome advances of a manager.
		Littman, who enjoyed the regard of the Yiddish literary circles in Odessa, was particularly successful in her cross-dressing role as a hasid.
	yiddish.haifa.ac.il /tmr/ytf/ytf03/ytf03006.htm (1257 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?topic=printing&col_id=222 (662 words)

	Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts
		YIDDISH theatre is alive and kicking as packed houses that attended two performances of On 2nd Avenue by Canadian troupe Wandering Stars will testify.
		A splinter group of the famous Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre in Montreal, the six-strong troupe, making its European bow, gave a nostalgic musical tour tracing the history of Yiddish music from Eastern Europe to Second Avenue on New York's Lower East Side where vaudeville flourished.
		Yiddish taps into that passion that everyone has and when we bring it out, it erupts.
	www.saidyebronfman.org /theatre/t2004_5/t_n_yiddishLeads.html (545 words)

	Avivale's Yiddish Page
		The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre in New York City is America's oldest Yiddish theater company.
		The Vilnius Yiddish Institute at Vilnius University in Lithuania "is the first Yiddish center of higher learning to be established in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe." The Institute sponsors a yearly Vilnius Summer Program in Yiddish: a month of intensive Yiddish language, literature, and cultural immersion.
		Raphael Finkel's yiddish page is home to a number of yiddish songs and texts, the new Yiddish Web journal, Der Bavebter Yid, and Di Yidishe Shraybmashinke - The Yiddish Typewriter which converts YIVO transcription into actual Yiddish characters.
	www.starkman.com /aviva/yiddish.html (1188 words)

	TMR Vol 10 No. 8
		He was also active in numerous societies and organisations concerned with Yiddish theatre, including magazines, theatre studios and a theatre museum.
		It is interesting that the author chose as title a Yiddish word, one with strong emotional overtones, and retained it in its Ashkenazic form, perhaps to communicate a sense of the complexity and tangledness of family connections.
		The Yiddish text of Bashevis's three-part story "Tayves" ('Passions') is already in place at http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il and within the coming fortnight the accompanying audio will join it so that readers will be able to simultaneously scroll the text and listen to Vilna-born Sara Retter read it.
	yiddish.haifa.ac.il /tmr/tmr10/tmr10008.htm (3015 words)

	RLAJT - International Workshop on Yiddish Theatre, Drama and Performance
		Yiddish language has in turn influenced writers working in other tongues, as discussed in Ben Furnish's paper on Yiddish reverberations in American Jewish drama.
		Nina Warnke, exploring the aesthetic politics of critics in New York around the turn of the century, argued that their widely shared view of the Yiddish theatre audience as a bunch of wayward children blinded them to many of the achievements of the Yiddish theatre.
		Collectively, the sessions demonstrated that the Yiddish theatrical repertoire is broader and more diverse than generally believed, more widespread geographically, and more intertwined with politics, social forces, and aesthetic sensibilities of any given time and place.
	members.tripod.com /~jtheater/oxford2.htm (1279 words)

	Mendele: Yiddish Theatre Forum archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Yiddish Theatre Forum (YTF), published under the auspices of Mendele, was founded in 2002 to foster greater interaction among scholars, artists, librarians, and lay people interested in the history of Yiddish theatre and drama.
		Recent years have brought a number of important new studies of Yiddish theatre.
		The central purpose of the Yiddish Theatre Forum is to provide a place online where professional and lay students of Yiddish theatre can exchange ideas and information.
	www2.trincoll.edu /~mendele/ytfarc.htm (238 words)

	Playbill News: STAGE TO SCREEN: Yiddish Theatre and April Debuts
		But like theatre itself, which has been referred to for decades as the Fabulous Invalid, the Yiddish theatre has proven a bit hardier than it may at first appear.
		Burstyn says the only place where Yiddish theatre truly thrives today is in Israel, where he estimates that about 750,000 Israelis still consider Yiddish their native language.
		“Yiddish was the language of the diaspora for 1,000 years, and it was vigorously fought in Israel,” Burstyn says.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/76125.html (1532 words)

	Yiddish Proletarian Theatre — www.greenwood.com
		Artef was important in the American world of Theatre of Socal Consciousness -- praised be such non-Yiddish-speaking theatregoers as Brooks Atkinson, Paul Robeson, and Eleanor Roosevelt -- but this is the first serious study of its work and significance....In scholarly fashion, Nahshon weaves together material from a variety of libraries, archives, and private collections.
		The book attempts to demonstrate that radical politics often shaped and determined the evolution of the theatre, and that its artistic and organizational life must be seen within the context of the political and cultural movement of which it was a part.
		This is a major work in Jewish Theatre Studies that will be of great use to scholars and other researchers involved with Jewish and Performance Theatre Studies as well as the history of the American Left.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/GM9063.aspx (499 words)

	EJP \| Culture \| The Yiddish theatre’s revival in France
		As in every Yiddish tale, there is a storyteller, the schnorrer, Chaïm, who plays the entire story long with the audience.
		In the tradition of the Yiddish tale, this show tends to be a tribute to Yiddish music and theatre.
		In fact, this story expects itself to be as close to the Jewish theatre tradition of the end of the 19th century, as possible.
	www.ejpress.org /article/culture/11473 (474 words)

	Guide to Resources in Yiddish Theatre
		Yiddish musical comedies and dramas often reflected the lives of their audiences.
		The opening of the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, during the 1980s, a result of the rescue of thousands of Yiddish books that had been forgotten in basements and attics of the descendents of this rich culture, has played an important role in enhancing awareness of what could have been a forgotten culture.
		No resource list on Yiddish theatre would be complete without mention of the exquisite art gracing the covers of the sheet music.
	www.libraries.iub.edu /index.php?pageId=3651 (2127 words)

	The Jewish Museum - What´s On - Exhibitions - Online exhibitions - Treasures online exhibition - Yiddish Theatre ...
		Yiddish Theatre in London was created by and for the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled in the East End of London in the late 19th century.
		The Yiddish theatre tradition lives on today through the unique collections of the Jewish Museum, including posters, programmes, costume, musical scores and photographs.
		The Pavilion Theatre - Drury Lane of the East
	www.jewishmuseum.org.uk /whatson/exhibitions/yiddish.asp (148 words)

	Yiddish Theatre Revisited @ UW JSIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		May 7-9, 2006, University of Washington, Seattle, WA An international conference devoted to the history, repertoire, and legacies of the Yiddish theatre.
		Yiddish cinema is a direct off-shoot of Yiddish theatre.
		This presentation will focus on the origins of Yiddish film—how it was created in Russia, Poland, Austria and America in the early years of the 20th century.
	jsis.washington.edu /jewish/yiddish.shtml (679 words)

	Yiddish Theatre
		Golus Storytheatre, founded by Lehmann and me in 1995, was established as an alternative to the near-moribund contemporary Yiddish theatre, on the one hand, and to such more popular media-Jews as Fran Drescher, Woody Allen or Jackie Mason, none of whose shtick has much to do with actual Jewish culture, on the other.
		So the whole idea of mocking Wagner in Yiddish more than half a century after the end of World War II is already an instance of what is referred to in Yiddish as "laughing with worms", or "laughing with lizards" - the sort of laughter provoked by disaster.
		He had studied Yiddish, was taking cantorial classes and had appeared as the King - Ahasverus with the clothes and voice of Elvis - in a Purim play I had written for Shadowlands in 1998.
	www.sukke.de /Golus/article.html (1715 words)

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		The history and stories of the Yiddish theatre and the Dovid Herman Theatre in particular, are now the subject of an excellent book in English and Yiddish, "Wanderers and Dreamers - Tales of the David Herman Theatre" by Arnold Zable and "The History of the Dovid Herman Theatre" by Moishe Ajzenbud.
		The Melbourne Yiddish Theatre at the "Kadimah", the successor of the long established "Dovid Herman Teater" at the "Kadimah", is currently in recess.
		The theatre is currently considering future productions, including Itzik Manger's "Humish Lider" and an adaptation of short stories by pioneer Australian Yiddish writer Pinkhas Goldhar from his "Dertzaylungen Fun Oystralye - Stories From Australia", a collection of Yiddish short stories about Jewish migrants in the pre and post WWII period.
	home.iprimus.com.au /kadimah/ktheatre.htm (468 words)

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