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Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre.
Benjamin Paul Goldfaden (September 6, 1913 – March 25, 2013) was an American professional basketball player. [1] He played two games in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Washington Capitols during the 1946–47 season .
Edwin Land was born to Jewish parents in [5] Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Matie [a] (née Goldfaden) and Harry Land, a scrap-metal dealer from a village near Kyiv ...
A clinical study conducted by Goldfaden MD found that in just two to four weeks, 97% of participants agreed that their under-eye skin felt smoother while 84% agreed that it improved the overall ...
The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later remark, "I wrote Di kishefmakhern in Romania, where the populace – Jews as much as Romanians – believe strongly in witches." [Bercovici, 1998] The title role, a female character, was written to be played by a man; it was first played by Israel Grodner .
Itay Goldfaden at the Olympic Committee of Israel (archived) (in Hebrew) South Carolina Gamecocks bio This biographical article related to an Israeli swimmer is a stub .
Raisins and Almonds" (Yiddish: ראָזשינקעס מיט מאַנדלען, romanized: Rozhinkes mit Mandlen) is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis". [1] [2] It has become so well known that it has assumed the status of a classic folk song.
The story of Judith has been a favourite of latter-day playwrights; it was brought alive in 1892 by Abraham Goldfaden, who worked in Eastern Europe. The American playwright Thomas Bailey Aldrich 's Judith of Bethulia was first performed in New York, 1905, and was the basis for the 1914 production Judith of Bethulia by director D. W. Griffith .