N. M. Sheikevitch
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N.M. Sheikevitch was a Yiddish novelist and, beginning around 1880, a playwright in Yiddish theater in Odessa, Ukraine. Jacob Adler wrote of his melodramas "Nothing so crude as this can be found in Goldfaden... [but] the humor in Sheikevitch is more believable."
His first works for theater were written around 1881 and performed in at the Mariinski Theater in Odessa, Ukraine; Ukraine was then part of Imperial Russia. He soon had a troupe of his own, but its success was cut off by the 1883 ban on Yiddish theater in Russia.
[edit] Plays
- Der Bel Tchuve (The Penitent)
- Trefnyak (The Impure One)
[edit] References
- Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0. 200, 271-272.
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