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Jewish Theatre in NYC

Sam Dorcemond

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Jewish Theatre in NYC

By:Samuel Dorcemond

Yiddish Theater District

This was a place where many Jewish immigrants came toigether to enjoy a part of their culture and sit through many traditional plays. This distrcit formed a community of immigrants where there wasn't one before.

Started in 1882 and continued throughout the 20th centirurey

When

The Yiddish Theater District, New York City

Where

The theatre was most popular from 1910-1920(World War 1)

Peak Popularity

The

There was a decline in popularity from 1930-1940 (Start of World War 2)(Click for more information)

Decline of Popularity

This theatre had a stong sense of immigrant indentity because it was run by Jewis immigrants. They also gave off a nice and welcoming enviorment for all to come and expirirnce a part of the Jewish culture. They would tend to play 20-30 plays a night for all to view upon and enjoy. They had a very dense population of mostly immigrants and there were also people of different political standpoints coming together to enjoy these plays.

General Characteristics

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They showcased many plays such as traditional Jewish plays, Shakespear, vaudevillian acts, comedies, original plays, musicals, operettas, and burlesque shows

Examples

This theatre district was a way for the Jewish to come together and show off their traditional plays. I belive its a shame that the district started to lose popularity by WWll sue to all of the anti semitism forcing the Jewish to move more north in New York. This was a safe community for these to enjoy plays and I feel like it should've lasted longer than it did.

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Decline of Yiddish Theatre district

The build up towards WWll and the start of the war were main causes of the downfall of the this distrcit. All of the anti semtic media eventually drove them away from living in this area, which caused this district to die off. Also Germans in this area already didn't take too kindly to the district becuase of anti semetism being very popular in Germany at the time.