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External Sites. User Reviews. A variety of popular entertainments developed including operettas, dramas, comedies, revues, and cabaret, from the lowbrow to the witty and sophisticated.
More intellectually ambitious fare was also offered, in the same range as the contemporaneous European avant-garde, including naturalism and symbolism. The forms most characteristic of Yiddish drama were large intense melodramas, domestic plays of tears and laughter, and expressionist creations with more or less explicit political overtones; the majority of plays in all genres wove in some music.
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Plots and themes touched on all human experience, and not all plays were even about Jewish characters. However, many plays explored specifically Jewish experiences, current or historical, and Jewish problems of loyalty and identity.
Translations and adaptations of non-Yiddish plays, from Shakespeare to the contemporary hits, also reached the European Yiddish stage. The best known serious Yiddish playwrights of the early 20th century included I.
Peretz, who was also extremely influential through his encouragement of younger playwrights, Sholem Aleichem, David Pinski, Peretz Hirschbein and Sholem Asch. The lively Yiddish press was keenly interested in theater. Newspapers and journals published reviews of productions, and also backstage gossip.
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Journals and books featured serious consideration of related theory and history. Memoirs by theater artists were sometimes serialized in the press before being published in book form. Printed editions of plays were available for reading and were particularly useful to amateur theater groups. There were over a hundred such groups in Poland alone during the interwar period, in addition to organizations dedicated to study and support of Yiddish theater. They were centers of communal activity and cohesion during difficult times. The first Yiddish art theater—devoted to artistic rather than commercial purposes—was founded in Odessa in , by Peretz Hirschbein with the active participation of actor Jacob Ben-Ami.
Several other professional troupes followed in the next decade. The best known was the Vilna Troupe, eventually based in Warsaw, where in it premiered its hit, The Dybbuk. In addition to established troupes, artistic and commercial shows played seasons in Eastern Europe, Vienna, Paris, and London.
Audiences outside of the Yiddish community attended and reviewed more serious productions. At the same time, however, pogroms and intermittent chaos in Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR bedeviled artists and audiences and undermined the stability necessary to build institutions. Warsaw was still hosting Yiddish theater as late as In the wartime Polish ghettos, performances took place, especially revues depicting the hardships of ghetto life.
Some rudimentary performances actually occurred in Nazi concentration camps. After the war, shows were put on in displaced persons camps, by survivors and guest artists. Linda, the matriarch of a totally assimilated leftist family, decides to celebrate Passover for the first time, to the bewilderment of her family and friends.
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