Abraham Goldfaden (Yiddish: אַבֿרהם גאָלדפֿאַדען; born Avrum Goldnfoden; 24 July 1840 – 9 January 1908), also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born...

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...

Comical Wedding) by Abraham Goldfaden. The play was inspired by a sketch presented by Mogulesco at an audition before Goldfaden.[citation needed] Since...

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...

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...

wanderings as a young Broder singer. Her husband was recruited by Abraham Goldfaden as the first professional Yiddish-language stage actor, but initially...

Zhytomyr, where he developed a close friendship with Abraham Goldfaden. Like Abraham Goldfaden and several other Yiddish-language writers of his generation...

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...

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...

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...

put on a play in Berdichev. Shortly afterward, the Ukrainian Jew Abraham Goldfaden, generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish...

Galaţi when the theater troupe formed roughly six months earlier by Abraham Goldfaden — at that time, the world's only professional Yiddish language theater...

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...

English: Schmendrik or The Comical Wedding) is an 1877 comedy by Abraham Goldfaden, one of the earliest and most enduring pieces in Yiddish theater....

play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it included music. The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later...

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...

is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis". It has become...

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...

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)...

Gotlober's students were Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and Abraham Goldfaden.[citation needed] In 1865 he became a teacher in the rabbinical school...

type of fictional character The Sorceress (play), an 1878 play by Abraham Goldfaden The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, a 2009...

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...

synthesis of Gordin and of the more traditional and melodramatic Abraham Goldfaden, an opinion which Peretz himself apparently would not have rejected:...

Roman Turovsky, painter Jacob Adler, actor Yosl Cutler, puppeteer Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Alexander Granach (1890–1945)...

cinematographer Vitaliy Ginzburg, director Alexander Goldstein, director Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Yuli Gusman, director...

Romania. Nonetheless, Shternberg adopted as a slogan "Back to Goldfaden". Calling Abraham Goldfaden "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian...

of its founder, Abraham Goldfaden, which derived in no small measure from Purim plays, often spectacles more than dramas; Goldfaden's later works were...

theater. She and her sister Annetta shared prima donna duties in Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in Romania beginning in 1877. Jacob Adler described the sisters...

Winona Ryder, actress Yael Stone, actress I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter Abraham Goldfaden, founder of Yiddish-language theater Marin Karmitz, director, producer...

foolish or contemptible person (from a character in an operetta by Abraham Goldfaden; OED) Shtetl: A small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust...