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Wikipedia: Jewish Culture Visual Arts Visual Arts list Literature Yiddish Ladino Hebrew Israeli American English Philosophy list Performance Arts Music Dance Israeli Cinema Yiddish Theatre Cuisine Jewish Israeli Sephardi Ashkenazi Other Humour Languages Symbols Clothing v • d • e Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, and, perhaps above all, New York City.
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![[Poster for Jewmuzdramcomedy (Jewish theater). USSR, Moscow, 1920.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Jewmuz1920_s.jpg "Poster for Jewmuzdramcomedy (Jewish theater). USSR, Moscow, 1920.")
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