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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 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.
These are articles written about Goldfaden and his impact on Yiddish theater, both while he was still alive and after his death, including celebrations of his 100th birthday and the various anniversaries of the Abraham Goldfaden Theater.
Jan 9, 2013 · On January 9, 1908, playwright, poet, actor and theatrical producer and director Abraham Goldfaden died in New York. Although he began his creative career writing in Hebrew, it was his work in Yiddish that made Goldfaden legendary, earning him a reputation as the father of modern Yiddish theater.
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Hebrew and Yiddish poet and founder of the Yiddish drama; born at Starokonstantinov, Russia, July 12, 1840. He graduated from the rabbinical school of Jitomir in 1866.
Ukrainian dramatist and composer, considered the father of the modern Yiddish stage. Goldfaden mounted full-fledged operettas, some of which—The Witch (1879), The Two Kuni-Lemls (1880), and Shulamith (1880)—became Jewish ...
Author. (1840–1908), playwright, theater director, poet, and impresario; considered the “Father of Yiddish Theater.” Avrom Goldfadn’s productions emerged during the period of the Haskalah movement in Russia and the cultural-nationalistic activities of East European minorities.
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GOLDFADEN, ABRAHAM (Avrom Goldfodem; 1840–1908), Yiddish poet, dramatist, and composer, founder of the modern Yiddish theater (see *Theater, Yiddish). Born into a watchmaker's family in Staro Konstantinov, Ukraine, he received not only a thorough Hebrew education but also acquired a knowledge of Russian, German, and secular subjects.
