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The theater was built by Louis Jaffe, a developer and prominent Jewish community leader, for Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre, which presented works in Yiddish. The theater was designed in the Moorish Revival style by Harrison Wiseman, while William Pogany consulted on the interior design.
The area was known as the "Jewish Rialto" at the time. After four seasons it became the Yiddish Folks Theatre, [56] then a movie theatre, the home of the Phoenix Theatre, the Entermedia Theatre, and now a movie theater again, the Village East Cinema. [57] It was designated a New York City landmark in 1993. [56]
A Yiddish-language poster for East Side Sadie, directed by Sidney M. Goldin, 1929.. Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא, romanized: Idish-Shprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which produced some 130 full-length motion pictures and 30 shorts during its heyday from 1911 and 1940.
The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919 – December 2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, and theatre director. The first play was The Innkeeper. [1] Wasserman [2] directed over 70 plays over four decades.
Folksbiene (Yiddish: פֿאָלקסבינע, IPA: [ˈfɔlksˌbɪnə], People's Stage) was founded in 1915, under the auspices of the fraternal and Yiddish cultural organization Workmen's Circle, [1] on New York City’s Lower East Side, as an amateur theatre group with high artistic ideals. [2]
The word, derived from Yiddish, has been used historically (and often disparagingly) to describe a usually blond, non-Jewish woman who tempts an otherwise God-fearing man to stray from his ...
The Grand Theatre was a theatre in the Yiddish Theatre District in Manhattan in New York City built for Yiddish productions, the first of its kind. [2] The theater was built in 1904 by Jacob Pavlovitch Adler, a famous Russian-born Jewish actor.
A s a millennial Jewish woman, the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This hooked me with a concept: "Adam Brody plays a hot Rabbi." And, yes, when I actually watched the 10-episode romantic comedy ...