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Young Theater
Young Theater (, ) was an experimental theatre started in Warsaw in 1929 by Michał Weichert, with support from the Kultur Lige. The theater aimed to teach new actors from working-class backgrounds, who often had some amateur experience. Weichert set up stages throughout the hall or venue, and immersed with the audience, using lighting to direct the attention of the audience. Several prominent members of Yiddish drama in Warsaw were involved with the theater, such as composer Henech Kon, set designer , and director . Young Theater had limited resources and faced frequent police incursions starting in 1936, changing its name many times, from 1937, the New Theater, but was able to put on many productions until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Productions Some of the productions at the theater include: * ''Boston'' by Bernhard Blume (February 1933) * ''Trupe Tanentsap'' by Weichert (September 1933) * ''Napoleon’s Treasure'' * ''Krasin'' (March 1934) * ''The Gold Diggers'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Weichert
Michał Weichert (, May 5, 1890 – March 11, 1967) was Polish-Jewish teacher, dramatist, and stage director. He founded the Young Theater in Warsaw. Biography Weichert was born in Staremiasto, Poland (now Ukraine) and moved to Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) with his parents at the age of three. His father was a grain merchant, involved with the misnagdim (religious anti-Hasidism) and haskalah (Jewish enlightenment) movements. Weichert studied at a cheder metukan, an improved religious school, and later Polish public schools. He attended the Czernowitz Conference in 1908. He was a member of the Yiddishist movement among Zionists who preferred Hebrew. He studied first at the University of Lemberg, before desiring to study theatre at the University of Vienna. There, he studied language, literature, theatre, art, and law, earning a doctorate in 1916. He moved to Berlin and attended lectures in theatre by Max Reinhardt in 1916 and 1917. He also studied theatre with Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Travels Of Benjamin III
''The Travels of Benjamin III'' (מסעות בנימין השלישי, ''Masa'os Binyamin Ha-Shelishi'') is a satirical work from the writer Mendele Mocher Sforim. The work was published first in the year 1878 in Yiddish, and, from then, until today, it has been considered by some to be the greatest satire on exilic Jewish life. The work is modeled after the Miguel de Cervantes novel ''Don Quixote''. The titular character is considered the third great Jewish Benjamin to be a traveler: the first being Benjamin of Tudela, and the second being J. J. Benjamin. References *Dara Horn, ''The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third'' by S.Y. Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim)" at ''Yiddish Book Center The Yiddish Book Center (formerly the National Yiddish Book Center), located on the campus of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, is a cultural institution dedicated to the preservation of books in the Yiddish language, ...'' https://web.archive.org/web/20140514 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Companies In Poland
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jews And Judaism In Poland
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Israel and Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 8'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, Jews referred to the inhabitants of the kingdom of JudahCf. Marcus Jastrow's ''Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Jews In The Second Polish Republic
Following the establishment of the Second Polish Republic after World War I and during the interwar period, the number of Jews in the country grew rapidly. According to the Polish national census of 1921, there were 2,845,364 Jews living in the Second Polish Republic; by late 1938 that number had grown by over 16 percent, to approximately 3,310,000, mainly through migration from Ukraine and the Soviet Russia. The average rate of permanent settlement was about 30,000 per annum. At the same time, every year around 100,000 Jews were passing through Poland in unofficial emigration overseas. Between the end of the Polish–Soviet War of 1919 and late 1938, the Jewish population of the Republic grew by nearly half a million, or over 464,000 persons.Yehuda Bauer, ''A History of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1929–1939.'' End note 20: 44–29, memo 1/30/39 (30th January 1939), The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 1974 Jews preferred to live in the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish History In Warsaw
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Israel and Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 8'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, Jews referred to the inhabitants of the kingdom of JudahCf. Marcus Jastrow's ''Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Warsaw
The history of Warsaw spans over 1400 years. In that time, the city evolved from a cluster of villages to the capital of a major European power, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth—and, under the patronage of its kings, a center of enlightenment and otherwise unknown tolerance. Fortified settlements founded in the 9th century form the core of the city, in today's Warsaw Old Town. The city has had a particularly tumultuous history for a European city. It experienced numerous plagues, invasions, and devastating fires. The most destructive events include the Deluge (history), Deluge, the Great Northern War (1702, 1704, 1705), War of the Polish Succession, Warsaw Uprising (1794), Battle of Praga, Battle of Praga and the Massacre of Praga inhabitants, November Uprising, January Uprising, World War I, Siege of Warsaw (1939) and Bombing of Warsaw in World War II, aerial bombardment—and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Uprising (after which the German occupiers razed the city). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modernist Theatre
Modernist theatre was part of twentieth-century theatre relating to the art and philosophy of modernism. List of modernist plays *'' Long Day's Journey into Night'' *''Waiting for Godot'' *''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' *'' The Caretaker'' *''A Streetcar Named Desire'' List of modernist playwrights *Eugene O'Neill *Samuel Beckett *Edward Albee *Harold Pinter *Tennessee Williams *Anton Chekhov *Bertolt Brecht *Henrik Ibsen See also * Modernist film *Modernist literature Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form a ... * Theater of the Absurd References {{reflist Modernist theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Theatre
Jewish culture is the culture of the Jewish people, from its formation in ancient times until the current age. Judaism itself is not simply a faith-based religion, but an orthopraxy and ethnoreligion, pertaining to deed, practice, and identity. Jewish culture covers many aspects, including religion and worldviews, literature, media, and cinema, art and architecture, cuisine and traditional dress, attitudes to gender, marriage, family, social customs and lifestyles, music and dance. Some elements of Jewish culture come from within Judaism, others from the interaction of Jews with host populations, and others still from the inner social and cultural dynamics of the community. Before the 18th century, religion dominated virtually all aspects of Jewish life, and infused culture. Since the advent of secularization, wholly secular Jewish culture emerged likewise. History There has not been a political unity of Jewish society since the united monarchy. Since then Israelite popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kadia Molodowsky
Kadia Molodowsky (; also: Kadya Molodowsky; May 10, 1894, in Bereza Kartuska, now Byaroza, Belarus – March 23, 1975, in Philadelphia) was a Polish-American poet and writer in the Yiddish language, and a teacher of Yiddish and Hebrew. She published six collections of poetry during her lifetime, and was a widely recognized figure in Yiddish poetry during the twentieth century.Kadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) " ''Jewish Heritage Online Magazine''. Excerpt from: Kathryn Hellerstein, "Introduction," in ''Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky'' (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999). Retrieved 2016-04-16.Hellerstein, Kathryn (20 March 2009). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halina Górska
Halina Górska (14 May 1898 in Warsaw – 4 June 1942 in Lwów) was a Polish writer and a communist activist. Biography Halina Endelman was the daughter of Zygmund and Czeslawa Endelman. She married Marian Gorski. They had one child born in 1924. She also had a granddaughter, who was born, long after she died Beginning in 1924 Górska became associated with the Lwów literary scene. Her first publication, in 1925, was "Mam mieszkanie" (''I have an apartment''), in the ''Kurier Lwowski''. In 1930 she published the fairy tale "O księciu Gotfrydzie, Rycerzu Gwiazdy Wigilijnej" (''About Prince Gotfried, Knight of the Christmas Star''). For many years she worked for the Lwów radio station, as a host of a special program for young adults. On her initiative, in 1931, the "Związek Błękitnych" (Blue Organization) was created, whose purpose was philanthropic activity. In 1933, together with Tadeusz Hollender and Karol Kuryluk she started the social-cultural monthly "Sygnały ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
