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Those initiated to the mysteries of Yiddish, as well as devotees of art for art's sake regardless of the medium, will hail the return of Maurice Schwartz and his players of New York's Yiddish Art Theatre. Their work there has roused the enthusiasm of many who understand not a word of the language. At the Grand Opera House on Friday and Saturday they will present again the famous "Dibbul" and on Sunday the original version of Gorkl's "A Night's Lodging...
...languages covered are: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portugese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Czech, Japanese, and Chinese...
...three Yiddish theatres of New York are the only ones in the world. Their performances are always well attended but they have never received that attention from dramatic critics which is accorded to the German stage. The Jewish drama is almost unknown to the Gentile world...
Originally the productions took the form of light operas, with good music, and popular songs. Later melodramatic situations were taken from French, German and English sources, and combined, with legends of Jewish history. But the production in 1892, of "Siberia," by Gordon the greatest of Yiddish realist playwrights, marked the beginning of the realist movement which is still dominant. The Jews have a strong artistic sentiment, and value their plays, not as sources of amusement, but as true reflections of their surroundings. Their realistic plays have many faults; they are too harrowing in detail, and they are often grossly incongruous...
...Moritz Rosenfeld of New York will give a reading from his Yiddish poetry under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein in the Fogg Lecture Room on April 18. Yiddish is a German dialect of the middle Rhine district, with some Hebrew and Slavic words incorporated into...