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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...
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  • Breindele Kozak) is a darkly comic 1887 Yiddish-language play by Abraham Goldfaden, generally accounted one of the best of his early works. The title...
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  • Comical Wedding) by Abraham Goldfaden. The play was inspired by a sketch presented by Mogulesco at an audition before Goldfaden.[citation needed] Since...
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  • wanderings as a young Broder singer. Her husband was recruited by Abraham Goldfaden as the first professional Yiddish-language stage actor, but initially...
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  • in Palermo) is a historical, dramatic play in rhymed couplets by Abraham Goldfaden, written some time between 1880 and 1883. The title character's name...
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  • Ukrainian or Romanian origin, nothing is known about his life before Abraham Goldfaden recruited him in Iaşi in 1876 as the second actor after Israel Grodner...
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    Empire, the Broder singer and actor was in Iaşi, Romania in 1876 when Abraham Goldfaden recruited him as the first actor for what became the first professional...
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    churches as well as synagogues, and started acting. He was a star in Abraham Goldfaden's first Bucharest-based theater troupe — and the playwright wrote the...
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  • newspaper, to cover the Russo-Turkish War. He crossed paths with Abraham Goldfaden, who only a year earlier had founded the first professional Yiddish-language...
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    Zhytomyr, where he developed a close friendship with Abraham Goldfaden. Like Abraham Goldfaden and several other Yiddish-language writers of his generation...
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    put on a play in Berdichev. Shortly afterward, the Ukrainian Jew Abraham Goldfaden, generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish...
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  • English: Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding) is an 1877 comedy by Abraham Goldfaden, one of the earliest and most enduring pieces in Yiddish theater....
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  • title Todros, Blos or Todres, Bloz) was an 1878 light comedic play by Abraham Goldfaden, now lost. The story centers around a man living beyond his means...
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    Galaţi when the theater troupe formed roughly six months earlier by Abraham Goldfaden — at that time, the world's only professional Yiddish language theater...
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  • Ni-be-ni-me-ni-cucurigu is an 1878 play by Abraham Goldfaden. The somewhat nonsensical Yiddish title is variously translated as Not Me, Not You, Not Cock-a-Doodle-Doo...
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    play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it included music. The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later...
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    as a professional actress (Odesa, 1878) was in the title role of Abraham Goldfaden's darkly comic operetta Breindele Cossack, in the troupe of Israel...
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  • is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis". It has become...
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  • early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greatest Yiddish star of the generation)...
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    of its founder, Abraham Goldfaden, which derived in no small measure from Purim plays, often spectacles more than dramas; Goldfaden's later works were...
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    Gotlober's students were Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and Abraham Goldfaden.[citation needed] In 1865 he became a teacher in the rabbinical school...
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    Romania. Nonetheless, Shternberg adopted as a slogan "Back to Goldfaden". Calling Abraham Goldfaden "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian...
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  • type of fictional character The Sorceress (play), an 1878 play by Abraham Goldfaden The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, a 2009...
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    synthesis of Gordin and of the more traditional and melodramatic Abraham Goldfaden, an opinion which Peretz himself apparently would not have rejected:...
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    the dish is in an 1898 Yiddish play Die Mumeh Sosye (Aunt Sosya) by Abraham Goldfaden. A recipe published in a Yiddish American cookbook in 1925 shows kashe-filled...
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    Roman Turovsky, painter Jacob Adler, actor Yosl Cutler, puppeteer Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Alexander Granach (1890–1945)...
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  • cinematographer Vitaliy Ginzburg, director Alexander Goldstein, director Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Yuli Gusman, director...
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  • Winona Ryder, actress Yael Stone, actress I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter Abraham Goldfaden, founder of Yiddish-language theater Marin Karmitz, director, producer...
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  • Flying Matchmaker, an Israeli musical film based on an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden. The film was selected as the Israeli entry into the Academy Awards...
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    including Der goldener fodem ("The Golden Thread", 1963), about Abraham Goldfaden (who in 1876 founded the world's first Yiddish-language theater, in...
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