Folksbiene
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The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene is a professional theater complay in New York City. It produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English.
The Folksbiene is thought to be “New York’s oldest theater company, English or Yiddish, commercial or not.” [1]
Folksbiene was founded in 1915 on New York City’s Lower East Side. This was the great era of Yiddish theater, there were 15 Yiddish theatre companies in New York and many more worldwide. Due to the destruction of European Jewry by the German Nazis, the Folksbiene is one of only four professional Yiddish theatre companies still in operation; the others are in Montreal, Warsaw and Tel Aviv. [2]
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- ^ ’’ Live & Be Well: A Celebration of Yiddish Culture in America, by Richard F. Shepard, Vicki Gold Levi, Rutgers University Press, 2000, p. 56
- ^ /[ http://www.folksbiene.org/history.html]
