Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908), playwright and composer

Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908) was an Ukrainian-born Jewish playwright and composer.

Biography

The father of Jewish modern theatre. In 1876 founded in Romania the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe.

Works on Second Temple Judaism

Operettas

• Bar Kokhba (1883 Goldfaden), opera
  • Bar Kochba; or, The Last Hour of Zion (1908 Goldfaden), opera (English ed.)
• Kenig Ahashverosh; oder, Kenigin Ester (1887 Goldfaden), opera
• Judas Maccabaeus (1892 Goldfaden), play
• Judith and Holofernes (1892 Goldfaden), play

External links

• Wikipedia