Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs
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Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs is a play by Augustin Daly ()[].
Also found as Leah, the Forsaken or simply Leah.
Based on Deborah by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal ()[] (itself inspired by certain elements in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe), first performed in Vienna in 1849.
Daly's English version first performed in New York in 1862, followed by a run in the Adelphi Theatre, London during 1863-4.
Nadia Valman. 2007. The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture, Cambridge University Press: p.34-39[1]
