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[The play opens with a damp, moldy cellar room illuminated by windows splattered in mud from the passersby on the street and a smoky oven. The room is furnished with a bench, table, sofa, crib, broken…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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A porch stage left, a little window. A tree at right. Under the tree a table on a wooden beam. Two solid old benches. In the background, a fence with an entrance in the middle. Behind the fence,…
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Alter-Sholem Kacyzne
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1925
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Arn-Wolf—parnes khoydesh (chairman of the kahal, the community council)Beyle—his wifeStere—his daughterRabbiFirst and Second Dayen (judges of the bes din…
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Moyshe Kulbak
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Minsk, USSR (Minsk, Belarus)
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1936
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Young Man:Tell us, Bar Kochba, the words to useWhen we return to our homesAnd tell of meeting you.Bar Kochba:For taking of the people’s land,For stealing of the people’s wealth,For towns…
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Shmuel Halkin
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1939
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Scene I. A Valley with a neat Cottage on the right, an Arbour on the left, and picturesque Mountains at a distance.Enter from the cottage, Jasper and Jenkins.Jenkins:And so, neighbour, you are…
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Mordecai Manuel Noah
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1819
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Gadhi, A PariaMaja, his WifeBenassar, Indian Attendant
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Michael Beer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1823
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Saul [upon returning from smiting the Amalekites]. Jonathan and his other sons.Saul:My fury still burns within my heart like a flame of fire!Even after I have smitten him, I have found no place…
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Joseph Ha-Efrati
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1826
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Offstage, Edom and Jonen Dalim.Edom:Chase that filthy beggar away from my door!Jonen:God punishes those who despise the poor.Israel:Edom sees my tatters and feels disgust…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1683/4
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Moshe:How? There’s no inner sanctum in my life, my life is secular, absolutely secular, from beginning to end. And what’s not in my psyche, I’ll not let you erect between us. Neither you nor anyone…
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Yehoshua Sobol
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976
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The Woman:I married him and he never gave me any trouble. His mother, she lives with us here. This house is his mother’s house. When we are there, together, in the other room, she lights candles here…
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Itzik Weingarten, Yehoshua Sobol
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1976