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Gorin, B : DI GESHIKHTE FUN IDISHEN [IDISHN] THEATER: TSVEY TOYZEND YOHR THEATER BAY IDEN [TWO VOLUME SET]

Nyu York; Literarisher Ferlag, 1918

Publishers cloth. 8vo. 256; 254 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. Two volume set, bound in red cloth, illustrated throughout with dozens of photographs of Yiddish dramatists and actors. “Bernard Gorin was born Yitskhok Goydo on April 13, 1868 in Lida, White Russia (today ? ? ? ? , Belarus) . He was a novelist, journalist, critic, and historian of the Yiddish theater. … In 1918, decades after the beginnings of the professional Yiddish stage, Gorin undertook the task of writing the first comprehensive history of Jewish theater. The resulting two volume book was entitled The History of Jewish Theater: Two Thousand Years of Theater among Jews. His work contains valuable material on the Goldfadn era and is based on Gorin’s discussions with Yiddish actors whom he knew in New York. As a writer for the (Morning Journal) , he reviewed plays and was considered a gifted translator of French, Russian, and English classics into Yiddish. Gorin died in New York on his 57th birthday on April 13, 1925.” (Yiddishkayt; Bernard Gorin) Subjects: Jewish theater - History. Theater, Yiddish - History. Light chipping to edge of backstrip, light wear to outer edges, cloth covers lightly bumped, otherwise fresh and clean. Good + condition. (YID-16-34)

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