Mirele Efros
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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.
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son.
- Josef Berne
- Berta Gersten, Ruth Elbaum, Albert Lipton
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
Mar 28, 2007 · Summary. Confronted by the complex, unruly, and finally destructive processes of history which would eradicate their presence from the human narrative, generations of Jews since the 1880s have come, by necessity perhaps, to view the family as the primary agent to secure communal and religious survival. In the face of the ...
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
Jun 26, 2024 · The Yiddish theater classic, Mirele Efros, which Haaretz calls “unquestionably the representative play of Yiddish Theater” is now being presented for the first time anywhere in the world in English translation, as The Jewish Queen Lear.
