Gordin, Jacob

Gordin, Jacob
(1853-1909)
   The Yiddish playwright—author of between 35 and 60 plays—was born in Mivgorod, Ukraine, and arrived in New York's Lower East Side in 1891. Like other Russian-Jewish intellectuals, he scorned the vulgar lower-class Yiddish theatre called shund. His first play, Siberia (1891), began the transformation of Yiddish theatre into something more serious, leading to a Golden Age of Yiddish Theatre. Championed by Jacob Adler, Gordin went on to write The Pogrom in Russia, Sappho, Mirele Ephros, and God, Man, and Devil. In 1897, Gordin cofounded the Freie Yidische Folksbiene, and he later published Yiddish theatrical newspapers. Gordin's dramatization of Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata (1902) was revived in English on Broadway in 1906, starring Bertha Kalish.

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