Hanna Rovina, in her role as Mirele Efros, costume by Isaac Frenkel
Mirele Efros was an 1898 Yiddish play by Jacob Gordin. Some[who?] have called it "the Jewish Queen Lear".
The title character is a powerful matriarch who becomes bitterly estranged from her own family. Lulla Rosenfeld, in her commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir, describes the central character as part of a tradition running at least from Solomon Ettinger's Serkele (1825) to Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing (1935).[1]
The title role was, according to Rosenfeld, "performed by every leading Yiddish actress".[2] It was originally played by Keni Liptzin,[3] during the first heyday of Yiddish theater in New York City. It was also notably played by Polish actress Esther Rachel Kaminska, who performed the part in New York in 1912.[2] The Liptzin production had David Kessler as Mirele's son and Dinah Feinman (the former wife of Jacob Adler) as her daughter-in-law Shaindl.
A silent Yiddish film based on the play was produced in Warsaw, in 1912, directed by Andrzej Marek (Mark Arnstein) and starring Esther Rachel Kaminska, along with her daughter Ida Kaminska.[4][5] A film adaptation of the play was made in the United States in 1939. It was directed by Josef Berne with Berta Gersten in the title role and Ruth Elbaum as Shaindl. It was made in Yiddish with English subtitles.[6][7]
^Adler, Jacob (2001). Jacob Adler: A Life on the Stage: A Memoir. Translated from the Yiddish and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld. New York: Applause. Rosenfeld's commentary, p. 259.
^ abAdler/Rosenfeld (2001). Rosenfeld's commentary, p. 260.
^Sandrow, Nahma (1976). Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater. New York: Limelight Editions. p. 156. "It was Gordin who educated [Liptzin], perhaps even shaped her, through the plays that he wrote for her. The best-known of these was Mirele Efros".
^Hendrykowski, Marek and Malgorzata (1996). "Yiddish Cinema in Europe," in Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (ed.), The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 174-176; here: 175.
^Staszczyszyn, Bartosz (April 13, 2014). "The Lost World of Yiddish Films in Poland". Culture.pl. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
^"Mirele Efros". National Center for Jewish Film. jewishfilm.org. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
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