Poster of Rachel Félix
Artist Unknown
ca. 1848
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Theater in Jewish Culture, 1750–1880
The novelty in Jewish performing arts in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries involved the adaptation of traditional materials into new forms, as well as a turn to performing arts that were unconnected to religious life.
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