Yiddish theater
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Yiddish theater is a performing arts tradition that emerged among Ashkenazi Jews, featuring plays, music, and comedy in the Yiddish language and reflecting the social, religious, and cultural life of Jewish communities.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
performing arts genre
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theatrical tradition → |
| affectedBy |
Holocaust
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| associatedWithEthnicGroup |
Ashkenazi Jews
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| culturalFunction |
community entertainment
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expression of Jewish identity → preservation of Yiddish language → social commentary → |
| declinedAfter |
World War II
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| developedAmong |
Ashkenazi Jewish communities
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| flourishedIn |
early 20th century
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late 19th century → |
| hasComponent |
comedy sketches
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dance → music → plays → song → |
| hasGenre |
comedy
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drama → musical theater → |
| influenced |
American theater
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Broadway musical theater → Jewish American literature → |
| influencedBy |
European popular theater
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Hasidic culture → Jewish folk traditions → operetta → |
| majorCenter |
Bucharest
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Buenos Aires → London → Lower East Side → Moscow → New York City → Odessa NERFINISHED → Vilna → Warsaw → |
| notableActor |
Boris Thomashefsky
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Jacob Adler → Maurice Schwartz → Molly Picon → Stella Adler → |
| notableInstitution |
Habima Theatre
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Vilna Troupe → Yiddish Art Theatre → |
| notablePlaywright |
Abraham Goldfaden
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Jacob Gordin → Peretz Hirschbein → S. Ansky → Sholem Aleichem → |
| originatedIn |
Eastern Europe
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| peakPeriod |
interwar period
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| performedIn |
Yiddish language
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| reflects |
Jewish cultural life
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Jewish religious life → Jewish social life → |
| relatedTo |
Hebrew theater
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Jewish music → Jewish theater → |
| revivalEfforts |
early 21st century
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late 20th century → |
| theme |
Jewish immigration
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Zionism → antisemitism → diaspora identity → generational conflict → poverty and social justice → religious tradition versus modernity → |
| usesLanguage |
Yiddish
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Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Joseph Buloff
("Yiddish theatre")
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fieldOfWork |
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Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
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hasCulturalPractice |
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Joseph Buloff
("Yiddish theatre movement")
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movement |
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Purim spiels
("Yiddish theatre")
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relatedTo |