Yiddish Arts Theatre

...The large-scale immigration of Eastern European Jews from the 1980s onwards encouraged the rise of Yiddish theatre in America. J. Goldin (1853-1909), who came to America to escape persecution in Russia, led the theatre world to flourish with his performances of "King Lear the Jew" (1892) and "Gods, Men, Devils" (1903), which contained universal and realistic issues that transcended narrow-mindedness. M. Schwartz (1890-1960), who opened the Yiddish Arts Theatre in New York in 1918, successfully staged his own original plays with the participation of P. Hirschbein (1880-1948), who had been promoting theatre activities in Odessa. He continued to focus on providing a diverse range of plays until the theatre closed in 1950. In addition to his plays, Hirschbein also wrote a lengthy travelogue, Around the World (1927), and a novel, Red Plains (1935), but the person who had the greatest influence on him was Bialik, who is praised as a Jewish national poet.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…80年代以降の東欧ユダヤ人大量移民は，アメリカでのイディッシュ演劇の台頭をうながした。ロシアでの弾圧を避けて渡米したJ.ゴルディン(1853‐1909)は，偏狭性を脱した普遍的･現実的課題を含む《ユダヤのリア王》(1892)，《神，人間，悪魔》(1903)の上演により演劇界の隆盛を導き，1918年，ニューヨークにイディッシュ芸術劇場を開設したM.シュワルツ(1890‐1960)は，オデッサで劇団活動を推進していたP.ヒルシュベイン(1880‐1948)の参加を得て，その創作劇上演に成功し，その後50年の劇場閉鎖時まで多彩な演目の提供に力を注ぎ続けた。ヒルシュベインは戯曲以外に長大な旅行記《世界一周》(1927)，小説《赤い原野》(1935)を書き残したが，彼に強い影響を及ぼしたのは，ユダヤの民族的詩人と称揚されるビアリクであった。…

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