Yiddish theater

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performing arts genre theatrical tradition

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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All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Yiddish theatre 14
Yiddish theater canonical 3
Yiddish theatre movement 3

Statements (68)

Predicate Object
instanceOf performing arts genre ⓘ
theatrical tradition ⓘ
affectedBy Holocaust ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
culturalFunction community entertainment ⓘ
expression of Jewish identity ⓘ
preservation of Yiddish language ⓘ
social commentary ⓘ
declinedAfter World War II ⓘ
developedAmong Ashkenazi Jewish communities ⓘ
flourishedIn early 20th century ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ
hasComponent comedy sketches ⓘ
dance ⓘ
music ⓘ
plays ⓘ
song ⓘ
hasGenre comedy ⓘ
drama ⓘ
musical theater ⓘ
influenced United States theatre ⓘ
surface form: American theater

Broadway musical theater ⓘ
Jewish American literature ⓘ
influencedBy European popular theater ⓘ
Hasidic culture ⓘ
Jewish folk traditions ⓘ
operetta ⓘ
majorCenter Bucharest ⓘ
Buenos Aires ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form: London

Lower East Side ⓘ
Moscow ⓘ
New York City ⓘ
Odesa ⓘ
surface form: Odessa

Vilna ⓘ
Warsaw ⓘ
notableActor Boris Thomashefsky ⓘ
Jacob Adler ⓘ
Maurice Schwartz ⓘ
Molly Picon ⓘ
Stella Adler ⓘ
notableInstitution Habima Theatre building, Tel Aviv ⓘ
surface form: Habima Theatre

Vilna Troupe ⓘ
Yiddish Art Theatre ⓘ
notablePlaywright Abraham Goldfaden ⓘ
Jacob Gordin ⓘ
Peretz Hirschbein ⓘ
S. Ansky ⓘ
Sholem Aleichem ⓘ
originatedIn Eastern Europe ⓘ
peakPeriod interwar period ⓘ
performedIn Yiddish language ⓘ
reflects Jewish cultural life ⓘ
Jewish religious life ⓘ
Jewish social life ⓘ
relatedTo Hebrew theater ⓘ
Jewish music ⓘ
Jewish theater ⓘ
revivalEfforts early 21st century ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ
theme Jewish immigration ⓘ
Zionism ⓘ
antisemitism ⓘ
diaspora identity ⓘ
generational conflict ⓘ
poverty and social justice ⓘ
religious tradition versus modernity ⓘ
usesLanguage Yiddish ⓘ

Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora → hasCulturalPractice → Yiddish theater ⓘ
Purim spiels → relatedTo → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Joseph Buloff → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Joseph Buloff → movement → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre movement
United States theatre → hasHistoricalInfluenceFrom → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Baruch Lumet → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Yiddish Art Theatre → field → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Sholem Secunda → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Sholem Secunda → composedFor → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Luba Kadison → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Luba Kadison → movement → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre movement
Luba Kadison → associatedWith → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre companies
H. Leivick → associatedWith → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: American Yiddish theater
Jewish labor movement → hasCulturalOutput → Yiddish theater ⓘ
Abraham Goldfaden → movement → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Jacob Gordin → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
Jacob Adler → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Maurice Schwartz → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Maurice Schwartz → movement → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre movement
S. Ansky → influenced → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Itzik Manger → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Boris Thomashefsky → fieldOfWork → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: Yiddish theatre
Boris Thomashefsky → movement → Yiddish theater ⓘ
this entity surface form: American Yiddish theatre