Yiddish theatre - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazaic Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - Precursors And Early Influences
Noah Prilutski (1882–1941) noted that Yiddish theatre did not arise simultaneously with theatre in other European "national" languages;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania
Literature Music Fine arts Cuisine Folklore Mythology Spirituality Actors Composers Painters Poets Writers Castles Museums Religious UNE...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walter Matthau: Encyclopedia - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was a Jewish American comedy actor. He is possibly best-known for his role as the gruff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Literary And Artistic Culture
In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s - Interwar Period 1918-1939
Jewish Polish history during the 1900s - Independence and Polish Jews. Jews also played a role in the fight for crisps for independence...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Literary And Artistic Culture
In some places where there have been relatively high concentrations of Jews, distinct secular Jewish subcultures have arisen. For example...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Early History To Golden Age: 966–1572
History of the Jews in Poland - Early history: 966–1385. Main article: History of Poland (966-1385) The first Jews arrived in the t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Early History To Golden Age: 966–1572
History of the Jews in Poland - Early history: 966–1385. The first Jews arrived in the territory of modern Poland in the 10th century...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walter Matthau: Encyclopedia Ii - Walter Matthau - Biography
He was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. There is a persistent rumor that his birth name was Matuschanskayasky...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bowery Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Bowery Theatre - Hamblin's Tenure
The owners hired Thomas Hamblin and James H. Hackett in August 1830 to manage the theatre. A month later, Hackett left Hamblin in complet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Dybbuk Play: Encyclopedia Ii - The Dybbuk Play - Plot Summary
Act 1: Hannan, a brilliant talmudic scholar, falls in love with Leah'le, the daughter of Sender, a rich merchant. Sender opposes a marria...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Historical Evolution
Culture of Romania - The beginnings. The Origin of Romanians is highly disputed. Few written records from the Dark Ages shed any light ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franz Kafka: Encyclopedia Ii - Franz Kafka - Life
Kafka was born July 3, 1883, into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia—at that time a part of the Austro-Hu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Wwii And The Destruction Of Polish Jewry 1939–45
History of the Jews in Poland - The Polish September campaign. Main article: Polish September Campaign During the Polish September Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - How Secular Jewish Culture Came To Be
Medieval Jewish communities in Eastern Europe developed distinct cultural traits over the centuries, but beginning with the Enlightenment...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Jewish Professions
Some professions have traditionally been considered particularly "Jewish," partially as a result of historical circumstances. These inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Interwar Period 1918–39
History of the Jews in Poland - Independence and Polish Jews. Jews also played a role in the fight for independence in 1918, some joini...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s - Communist Rule: 1945-1989
Jewish Polish history during the 1900s - Post-war. Between 40,000 and 100,000 Polish Jews survived the Holocaust in Poland by hiding or...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Dybbuk Play: Encyclopedia Ii - The Dybbuk Play - Production History
The first version of the play was written in Russian. Ansky presented the play to Konstantin Stanislavski, the legendary director of the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Heritage Of The Minorities
Hungarians living in Transylvania and the so-called Transylvanian Saxons (ethnic Germans of Transylvania) made many important contributio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Traditions
Culture of Romania - Folklore. Main article Romanian folklore The most striking thing about Romanian culture are the strong folk trad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bowery Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Bowery Theatre - Later Management
By the middle of the 19th century, immigrant groups, notably the Irish, began populating the Bowery neighborhood. They came to form a sig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bowery Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Bowery Theatre - Founding And Early Management
By the mid-1820s, wealthy settler families in the Bowery area of New York City wanted easy access to fashionable high-class European dram...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Origins Of Secular Jewish Culture
For at least 2,000 years, there has not been a unity of Jewish culture. Jews were always geographically dispersed, so that by the 19th ce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Secular Jewish Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Secular Jewish Culture - Jewish Professions
Some professions have traditionally been considered particularly "Jewish," partially as a result of historical circumstances. These inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Polish History During The 1900s - Wwii And The Destruction Of Polish Jewry 1939-1945
Main articles: The Holocaust and History of Poland (1939-1945) Jewish Polish history during the 1900s - The Polish September campaign. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Music In Present Day Romania
Many Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Sports And Entertainment
See: Oina (sport) Nadia Comaneci (gymnast) Simona Amânar (gymnast) Béla Károlyi FC Steaua Bucureşti Gheorghe Hagi (football player) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franz Kafka: Encyclopedia Ii - Franz Kafka - Bibliography
Franz Kafka - Short Stories. Description of a Struggle (Beschreibung eines Kampfes - 1904-1905) Wedding Preparations in the Country (H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Communist Rule: 1945–89
History of the Jews in Poland - Postwar. Between 40,000 and 100,000 Polish Jews survived the Holocaust in Poland by hiding or by joinin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Romania: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Romania - Architecture And Engineering
In the technical domain one can note the spectacular achievements in the field of aviation made by Traian Vuia and Henri Coandă and also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Wwii And The Destruction Of Polish Jewry 1939–45
History of the Jews in Poland - The Polish September campaign. During the Polish September Campaign of 1939, some 120,000 Polish citize...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Since 1989
With the fall of Communism in Poland, Jewish cultural, social, and religious life has been undergoing a revival. Many historical issues, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Interwar Period 1918–39
History of the Jews in Poland - Independence and Polish Jews. Jews also played a role in the fight for independence in 1918, some joini...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - The Development Of Judaism In Poland And The Commonwealth
The culture and intellectual output of the Jewish community in Poland had a profound impact on Judaism as a whole. Some Jewish historians...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - The Polish-lithuanian Commonwealth: 1572–1795
History of the Jews in Poland - The Warsaw Confederation. Following the childless death of Zygmund II, the last king of the Jagiellon d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Jews In Poland: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Jews In Poland - Jews Of Poland Within The Russian Empire 1795–1918
Official Russian policy would eventually prove to be substantially harsher to the Jews than that under independent Polish rule. The lands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Heyday Of Yiddish Theater
The 1883 Russian ban (eventually lifted in 1904) effectively pushed Yiddish theatre to Western Europe and then to America; over the next ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Effect Of The Holocaust
Like the rest of Yiddish-language culture, Yiddish theatre was devastated by the Holocaust. A major portion of the world's Yiddish-speake...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - London
Of the next era of Yiddish theatre, Adler wrote, "...if Yiddish theater was destined to go through its infancy in Russia, and in America ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The First Rumblings
Although professional Yiddish theatre is generally dated from 1876, there are earlier claimants to the title. Although there was briefly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Early Years
Abraham Goldfaden is generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish theatre troupe, which he founded in Iaşi, Romani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yiddish Theatre: Encyclopedia Ii - Yiddish Theatre - The Russian Era
If Yiddish theatre was born in Romania, its youth occurred largely in Imperial Russia, largely in what is now Ukraine. Israel Rosenberg's...   » Read the article