Joseph Lateiner

Joseph Latins (* September 1853 in Jassy, Romania, † 1935) is considered the first professional Yiddish theater writer, the assembly-line -produced its low- literary pieces. For many years he was one of the most successful and well-known figures of the Yiddish theater in America.

Life

Joseph Latins was born to poor parents, strict Jewish education and proved to be extremely talented Talmud student. Very early but already he was also interested except religious literature in the modern world languages ​​he studied and made ​​him the traditional forms of law-abiding Jewish life alienated.

Even in Romania (especially in Bucharest ), he wrote from 1878 under the influence of gold thread and at the same time with this pieces for the Yiddish theater, but by far not reached its - partly up even low - level. After the collapse of the Yiddish theater in Romania Latins went with a troupe continues to Odessa, where he produced several pieces and brought to the performance.

Around 1885 came Latins to New York, 1902, he was there - along with Sophia Karp and Jacob Fischel - founder of the Yiddish " Grand Theatre ".

Importance

After the theater critic Michael Weichert ( in the corresponding article in the Jewish lexicon, see below) was Lateiners theater production, which includes about 200 pieces, " mostly from verjüdischten pinch strange pieces that contain a loose mixture maudlin backstairs romance and raw Schwankbanalität "; Wininger (see below) even speaks expressly of " shoddy manufacturing " - however, Lateiners rushed production and showmanship of his pieces in part from an unhealthy competition to explain because it for months with his competitors Moshe Hurwitz a poetry competition for supremacy in the Yiddish stage supplied and was forced to on a weekly basis to submit new plays for the theater.

Works (selection)

A year nor the Chassene - A Korban of Love - A mother's heart - Alexander or the Crown Prince of Yerushalayim - Bath Sheva or Winschfingerl - Ben Jaacob or Goluth Spain - Blimale, the Perl of Warsaw or Graf and Jew - Chava or the snake as a housewife - Chinke Pink - Rav Chochmath Schelomo or Tanchuma and Aschmadai - Chorban Yerushalayim - Chussen Kalleh - Daniel in the lion's Den - Daniel or the daughter of Jeruschulajim - the fifth commandment or Kibid ov - the Yiddish heart - David b. Yishai (historical operetta ) - David's violin - the Americans or the golden Chassene - The emesser Fraind - The entlofener Soldier - The Ganev - The Yid in Romania - The Yom Hachupa - The comedian or a blot on the Mischpuche - The Mames Töchterl - The man under the table - the ormer millionaire - the Ozer - Satan in Gan Eden - the star of Prague - the wrong Zewua - the Huguenots - the Jewish World - the love fun Yerushalayim ( Israel Grodners troop processed by the appropriate template Mapusa ) - the seamstress - The beautiful Esther, or Melech - the Seder night or Bilbel Dam - the verblondsete Neschume - the Tzwei Schmil Schmelkes ( his first play, patterned after a gold thread operetta ) - dybbuk ( in Odessa with huge success premiered ) - Dina or the guest of that world - Ephraim and Menashe, or the love of Zijon - Escheth Chayil or the Princess of Jude - Ester and Hamann - Ezra or the Wandering Jew - Gabriel or the love of a woman Yiddish - galut Russia - Goldale, Zion or al Naharath Babel - Hallel or the yetzer hara Milchama with the - your Widde - Ischara - Yehuda Maccabi - Jehudith the Second - Jehudith or verblondsete Schefale - Jehudith and Holofernes - Jente Pipernuter ( premiere Odessa) - Jidale or Emeth and Sheker - Joseph and his brothers - Kiddosch Hashem or Yiddish Minister - king and peasant - Korah Ozroth - Lumpacius - Vagabundus (after a Romanian template for Grodner ) - Mammon money God - Man Wabs Fraind - man and woman - Mishke and Moshke or Europeans in America - Nathan Schlemiehl - Shloime Hamelechs mishpat (historical operetta ) - Father's Love - Four hundred years or the prince and the Chacham - Tsar Ivan Grosni

Literature / Sources (Selection)

  • David Pinski, Dos Yiddish drama. A iberblik iber ir Developement, New York 1909
  • Travel, leksikon ... Vol II, 1914
  • B. Gorin, history fun Yiddish theater, Vol II, New York 1923
  • Wininger 1925 et seq Vol III
  • M. Weichert, article Joseph Latins, in:. Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol III, Berlin 1927
  • Jacob Adler, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, New York 1999
  • Friederike von Moellendorff, The Yiddish theater music, Munich 2008
  • Author
  • Literature (19th century)
  • Literature ( Yiddish )
  • Drama
  • Person (Judaism )
  • Born in 1853
  • Died in 1935
  • Man
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