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O age! Here’s something new that I have filled
With old, like fine oil in a flask.
A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and minds
I have invented for exploring love.
I provide a model of the…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Aloysius Minkus
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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Ahead of the first verses of the Eastern European Jewish poets, I would like to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, how much more Jargon [Yiddish] you understand than you believe you do.
I am not actually…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1912
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We are becoming so accustomed to the remarkable enterprise of the authorities of the Temple, East End Jewry’s playhouse in Commercial Road, that we cease to wonder at anything they now attempt in…
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1912
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Photographer Unknown
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916
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Marx Brothers
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1914
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From the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Yiddish theater flourished on New York City’s Lower East Side, where it could draw on an audience of more than 1.5 million first- and second…
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Unknown
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1909
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In three acts by the famous author Yitsḥak Katzenelson.
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Karmel, a rich Jewish timber merchant Mr. Kharaz
Yoḥanan, his son Mr. Mikhalesko
Bill, a gypsy captain Mr. Landau
Tarta, an old…
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Unknown
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1917
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Moriah SoiréeBar GioraA Play in Seven ActsBy: David YellinAdapted from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell(On the life of the Jews before the destruction of the Second Temple and their overthrowing of the Roman…
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David Yellin, The Moriah Association
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1908