Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden
Born
Avrum Goldnfoden (1840-07-24)24 July 1840 Starokostiantyniv, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
Died
9 January 1908(1908-01-09) (aged 67) New York City, United States
Genre
Yiddish theatre
operetta
Years active
1876–1908
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.
In 1876 he founded in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theatre troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. The Avram Goldfaden Festival of Iaşi, Romania, is named after him and held in his honour.
Jacob Sternberg called him "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish culture".[1] Israil Bercovici wrote of his works: "we find points in common with what we now call 'total theatre'. In many of his plays he alternates prose and verse, pantomime and dance, moments of acrobatics and some of jonglerie, and even of spiritualism..."[2]
AbrahamGoldfaden (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 AbrahamGoldfaden, generally accounted one of the best of his early works. The title...
Comical Wedding) by AbrahamGoldfaden. 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 AbrahamGoldfaden, written some time between 1880 and 1883. The title character's name...
Ukrainian or Romanian origin, nothing is known about his life before AbrahamGoldfaden recruited him in Iaşi in 1876 as the second actor after Israel Grodner...
wanderings as a young Broder singer. Her husband was recruited by AbrahamGoldfaden as the first professional Yiddish-language stage actor, but initially...
churches as well as synagogues, and started acting. He was a star in AbrahamGoldfaden's first Bucharest-based theater troupe — and the playwright wrote the...
newspaper, to cover the Russo-Turkish War. He crossed paths with AbrahamGoldfaden, who only a year earlier had founded the first professional Yiddish-language...
Zhytomyr, where he developed a close friendship with AbrahamGoldfaden. Like AbrahamGoldfaden and several other Yiddish-language writers of his generation...
Empire, the Broder singer and actor was in Iaşi, Romania in 1876 when AbrahamGoldfaden recruited him as the first actor for what became the first professional...
is a traditional Jewish lullaby popularized in the arrangement by AbrahamGoldfaden (1840-1908) for his 1880 Yiddish musical, "Shulamis". It has become...
Galaţi when the theater troupe formed roughly six months earlier by AbrahamGoldfaden — at that time, the world's only professional Yiddish language theater...
put on a play in Berdichev. Shortly afterward, the Ukrainian Jew AbrahamGoldfaden, generally considered the founder of the first professional Yiddish...
type of fictional character The Sorceress (play), an 1878 play by AbrahamGoldfaden The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, a 2009...
early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of AbrahamGoldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greatest Yiddish star of the generation)...
as a professional actress (Odesa, 1878) was in the title role of AbrahamGoldfaden's darkly comic operetta Breindele Cossack, in the troupe of Israel...
the dish is in an 1898 Yiddish play Die Mumeh Sosye (Aunt Sosya) by AbrahamGoldfaden. A recipe published in a Yiddish American cookbook in 1925 shows kashe-filled...
שמענדריק): ineffectual person. From Shmendrik, an 1877 opera in Yiddish by AbrahamGoldfaden. shpiel: an act; a lengthy, often instructive talk (from Yiddish שפּיל...
Roman Turovsky, painter Jacob Adler, actor Yosl Cutler, puppeteer AbrahamGoldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Alexander Granach (1890–1945)...
Gotlober's students were Mendele Mocher Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, and AbrahamGoldfaden.[citation needed] In 1865 he became a teacher in the rabbinical school...
of its founder, AbrahamGoldfaden, which derived in no small measure from Purim plays, often spectacles more than dramas; Goldfaden's later works were...
favourite of latter-day playwrights; it was brought alive in 1892 by AbrahamGoldfaden, who worked in Eastern Europe. The American playwright Thomas Bailey...
novel by Kalman Schulman Bar Kokhba (1882), a Yiddish operetta by AbrahamGoldfaden (mus. and libr.). The work was written in the wake of pogroms against...
cinematographer Vitaliy Ginzburg, director Alexander Goldstein, director AbrahamGoldfaden (1840–1908), playwright and theatre director Yuli Gusman, director...
foolish or contemptible person (from a character in an operetta by AbrahamGoldfaden; OED) Shtetl: A small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust...
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