Mirele Efros was an 1898 Yiddish play by Jacob Gordin.

"Kuni Leml," a musical based on an old Yiddish play, left the 99-seat theater for bigger quarters after an extended run in 1984, he said.

Its immigrant audience died out while their children grew up into English-speaking Americans no longer interested in - or even capable of understanding - Yiddish plays.

It has been the subject of books, essays and a Yiddish play.

Undernourished and overbearing version of the Yiddish play of erotic possession.

Di shkhita was an 1899 Yiddish play by Jacob Gordin.

This Baraşeum production was not, however, the first Yiddish play after of the new period.

"The Witch" was the first Yiddish play presented professionally in America, little more than a century ago, on the Lower East Side.

The first performance of a Yiddish play was held there in what is now the theatre's Ludger-Duvernay room in the winter of 1896.

He gained popularity after acting the comedic role in the Yiddish play "Hamaloch Hagoel" in 1998.