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State Jewish Theatre
Bucharest, Romania
2007
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Jewish theatre in
Romania has a tradition dating back 125 years.
Documents show that in 1876 the writer and artist
Avram Goldfaden started the first professional
Jewish theatre in the world, in a public park in the
Romanian town of Iaşi . A few months later,
Goldfaden moved with his theatre company to
Bucharest. The first review of the work of the
Jewish Theatre was written by the eminent Romanian
poet Mihail Eminescu.
Since then the Jewish
Theatre has held a particular place in Romanian
Theatre. The early days were difficult with
precarious finances hindering the building of a
permanent company and theatre base. But these
obstacles did not stop the artistic development of
the work and the company could count on the support
of fellow artists.
The great director and
teacher Jacob Sternberg raised the artistic profile
of the company in the early part of the twentieth
century. In 1930 he created a studio theatre where
modern trends in European theatre could be
developed.
The fascist dictatorship
years of World War II brought hard times, and Jewish
artists were not allowed to perform in their own
language nor to appear in public. A group of them
started the "Barasheum" Theatre in Bucharest where
the performances were in Romanian. In 1948 the
Bucharest State Jewish Theatre was created, its
repertoire following a mix of traditional and modern
theatre, consisting of Jewish, Romanian and
international works.
The Jewish Theatre of
Bucharest has toured to theatres in the USA, Canada,
Israel, Germany, Austria, Russia, Switzerland and
France, as well as performed in a number of
international festivals to much acclaim. In its
uninterrupted 125 years long history, the last 53 as
a state institution, the Jewish Theatre in Bucharest
has developed a distinguished profile and occupies a
unique position in Yiddish language art worldwide.
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LIST OF BIOGRAPHIES
IN THE EIGHTH VOLUME
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Romanian State Jewish
Theatre of Bucharest
B
Brenda, Eugenia
C
Calugarita, Marius (to come)
Calugarita, Nicolae
Ciucă, Mihai
Ciupercescu, Cornel (to come)
D
Diulescu, Constantin
E
Eliad, Harry
Eliad, Leonie Waldman (to come)
G
Guttman, Roxana (to come)
M
Morgenstern, Maia
R
Rosenfeld, Rudy
S
Stoica, Luana (to come)
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