- Hersh Leib Sigheter
Hersh Leib Sigheter (1844–1933) was a
Romania nJew who, even before the advent of what is generally considered to be professionalYiddish theater , wrote satiricalYiddish -languagePurim plays on an annual basis and hired boys to play in them. Although often objected to byrabbi s, these plays were popular, and were performed not only on Purim but for as much as a week afterwards in various locations. [Bercovici, 1998, 28]References
* Bercovici, Israil, "O sută de ani de teatru evreiesc în România" ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă. Editura Integral (an imprint of Editurile Universala), Bucharest (1998). ISBN 973-98272-2-5. "See the article on the author for further publication information."
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