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.
Cover of sheet music for “Sadie Salome, Go Home.” Fanny Brice (1891–1951) was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace respectively. Getting her break in entertainment…
In Exile, a column of Jews makes their way across a barren landscape that evokes the desert that the biblical Israelites wandered for forty years. But the people here are clearly East European Jews…
David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…