Di tsvey Kuni-Leml

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Di tsvey Kuni-Leml ("The Two Kuni-Lemls") is a Yiddish comedy in four acts by Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908)[1].

The original text

Set in Odessa, Krakow, the play deals with issues of family, love, marriage, assimilation, religious tradition, tradition vs. modernity and Jewish Communal Affairs.

First performed in 1880 and published in 1887.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1890s: Performed in Yiddish by the Jewish Dramatic Society (founded in 1896), possibly at the Baltic House Hall in Fox Street, Johannesburg.


Sources

Gustav Saron and Louis Hotz. 1955. The Jews In South Africa - A History. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, London, New York, 1955.

https://web.uwm.edu/yiddish-stage/plotting-yiddish-drama/di-tsvey-kuni-leml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Goldfaden


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