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
 

Haggadah fun Yekina
 

On the title page of the printed "Haggadah fun Yekina and of Rinder, its famous young man from Yekina, the only son, as they have the order the court (?). We have that to show the public the old world with many years to return the difference to know against the current generation that it no longer results in the same Rinder. From this may all have books around [them], nemin as one might see all that has to be done, and children to read learn to to be not in the world in life as an animal(?).

The people of the "play" were: Rinder -- the father, Khashe -- the mother, Yekina -- the only son, Pesele -- the daughter, Gavriel -- the uncle, Melamed fun yekina, guest on Passover, Stakh --Hoyzknekht, Yefke -- the Queen and Casper the Miller. In between parts were for other people.

The play is build on the knowledge and laws that went around among people from other countries.

Sh. Niger maintains that Sholem Aleichem had from this booklet collected elements for his humor.

The name of the author was not given in this booklet. The first edition is from Lemberg. In the future edition (Warsaw 1881), it says "Huba lbis hdfus e"y R' Feivel Moldavsky Mbrditshuv".

In 1903 in Peinski's printing shop in Pietrkow, there was published a new reprint [64 pp., 24°].

  • Sh. Niger -- Elementn fun sholem aleichems-humor far sholem aleichem, "Pnks", N. Y., 1-2, 1927.

  • Noah Prilutski -- Mkhkh di kval fun sholem aleichems humor, "Di yidishe velt", Warsaw 4, 1928.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 590.
 

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