Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Y. Freid
(Yisrayl)


In Trm't (1889) in Petersburg, his play, "Di yidishe glikn," was published, a tragedy in five acts and six scenes, with three songs, a story that happens in one Yiddish city in Lita, composed by Y. Freid.

The play is written in German, with songs in Yiddish and Hebrew, as is the introduction.

Rabbi Katzin (Y.Kh. Rawnitzki] writes about the play:

"If you have the desire  ....to know how to write such works, I'll tell you the secret. It is very easy, next to nothing. You should only have one standard, that the right thing to do in that poetry is only the grammar. Further, as...

  • Zalmen Reisen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature," Vilna, 1929, p. 167.

  • Rabbi Katzin [Y.Kh. Ravnitsky] -- "Yudishe folks-bibliotek," Kiev, 1889, pp. 297-300.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 6, page 5115.
 

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