Abstract

Drama
M. C. D. | August 24, 1918 issue

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The Yiddish drama in some of its aspects has long been familiar to those dwelling or visiting in New York to whom the foreign-language theatres offer a welcome contrast to the monotony of the native scene. In the theatres of the East Side, where Jacob Gordin used to produce his plays and where Jacob Adler used to act in dramatist William Shakespeare or in melodrama with equal fervor, one learned to understand the appeal of the crude but effective popular drama, expressed in the ugly jargon that is an offence to the ear but that appears to have a homely vigor of its own. The employment of Yiddish in literary form began after 1881, when the anti-Jewish riots and legal discrimination brought about a national awakening.

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YIDDISH drama; PERFORMING arts; YIDDISH literature; DRAMA; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; DRAMATISTS
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