Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin

Jacob Gordin (Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, born May 1, 1853 in Poltava, † June 11, 1909 in New York ) was a Yiddish theater writer who initiated the higher development of the Yiddish drama and a reform of the Jewish stage in the early phase of the Yiddish theater.

Life

He was successively a farmer, shipyard workers in Odessa, actors, teachers, socialist agitator, journalist (initially for Russian newspapers ) and then a playwright.

In 1879 he founded in Jelisawetgrad the sect of the Biblical brotherhood, which moved away from orthodox Judaism, trying to follow the religious ideas of Tolstoy and advocated a return to physical labor.

Only after his forced emigration to the United States (July 1891) he began to write short stories and time-critical essays.

At first he had tried there without any success building a colony on a communist basis, then in New York on the promotion of the Yiddish language and - laid the Yiddish theater, which he now his whole - after acquaintance with the major Yiddish actors Adler and Mogulescu should devote life.

He scored The greatest impact with his own dramatic work in which he often took up themes of world literature, etc. The idische Kenig Lier (1892 ) by Shakespeare ( transmission of the theme of ungrateful children a generation gap between traditional thinking and living parents and their Americanized children) and Got, Mentsch un teiwl (1900) by Goethe's Faust.

He also performed a large number of the most excellent European, especially the German dramas for the Yiddish stage, such as Lessing's Nathan the Wise, Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, etc.

Jacob Gordin was the first realistic drama on the Yiddish stage, involved European traditions in the Yiddish theater, and also contributed with his essays on dramaturgy and theatrical matters much to the uplift of the Jewish art of acting; temporarily he had also conducted together with eagle theater that brought his own pieces for performance mainly.

Since 1912, published Gordins dramas also in Russian translation and were listed on the Russian stage and partly in England with great success.

Works (selection)

  • Ernani, 1886 ( by Victor Hugo)
  • Siberia, 1892 ( his first play, a realistic piece from the Jewish presence )
  • Freedom, 1892 ( his first play in America, which was crowned with success equal to )
  • The idische Kenig Lier, 1892 (after Shakespeare)
  • Muhammad and the Jews of Arabia, 1894 ( historical opera )
  • Egel Hasahaw, the golden God, 1895
  • The wild king, 1896 ( fantastic opera )
  • Auditor, 1896 (after Gogol )
  • Medea, 1896 ( by Grillparzer )
  • Nathan the Wise, 1897 ( Lessing )
  • Blessed Itzik the Fidler, 1897 ( after Schiller's Intrigue and Love)
  • Mirele Efros, 1898 ( his most important and also the most popular pieces)
  • Luria Brothers, 1898
  • The Orphan, 1898
  • The wild man, 1898
  • Captain Dreyfuss, 1898
  • Got, Mentsch un teiwl, 1900 ( according to Goethe's Faust )
  • The beautiful Miriam, 1900
  • The Oath, 1900 (according to Captain Fuhrmann Henschel)
  • Kreutzer Sonata, 1902 (after Tolstoy )
  • The Ez hadaath, 1902
  • Chasie the Jesoime, 1903
  • The Pelischtim, 1904
  • Rosa Berndt, 1904 ( according to Captain )
  • The Unknown 1905
  • Mina, 1906
  • Elisha ben Abuja, 1906
  • The Children of the Sun by Gorky, 1906 (Translation )
  • The Stranger, 1906 ( romantic drama )
  • On the mountain, 1907
  • Without Home, 1907
  • Goluth Galicia, 1908
  • The Meschigaath in America, 1908
  • The aunt of Warsaw, 1910 ( Comedy )

Expenditure ( selection)

  • Jacob Gordins a - akters, New York 1907
  • Ale schriftn fun Jacob Gordin, 4 vols, New York 1910
  • Jacob Gordins dramas, 2 vols, New York 1911

Literature (selection )

  • Travel, leksikon ..., 1914
  • B. Gorin, History of Yiddish theater, New York 1918
  • Eugen Tannenbaum, articles Jacob Gordin, in: Jewish Encyclopedia Vol II, Berlin 1927
  • Brockhaus Encyclopedia, Vol 7, Wiesbaden 1969
  • Beth Kaplan: Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: the life and legacy of Jacob Gordin, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8156-0884-4
  • Barbara Henry: Rewriting Russia: Jacob Gordin 's Yiddish drama, Seattle, Wash. [ inter alia ]: Univ. of Washington Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-295-99133-7
Myrhorod Yiddish theatre William Shakespeare Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goethe's Faust Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Friedrich Schiller The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol Franz Grillparzer Gerhart Hauptmann The Kreutzer Sonata Rose Bernd Zalman Reisen Integrated Authority File
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