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Mirele Efros was an 1898 Yiddish play by Jacob Gordin. Some [ who? ] have called it "the Jewish Queen Lear". The title character is a powerful matriarch who becomes bitterly estranged from her own family.
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son.
- Josef Berne
- Berta Gersten, Ruth Elbaum, Albert Lipton
Mirele Efros è una delle opere più riuscite di Jacob Gordin,4 intellettuale ebreo russo trapiantato a New York e qui divenuto un prolifico drammaturgo.
- Giulia Randone
- 2018
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
Mirele Efros is a tale of power and pride. Mirele pounds her walking stick imperiously on the floor as she battles her daughter-in-law for control of the two worlds she built herself, her household and her business, worlds that she intends to keep.
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community.
