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''[[La Juive]]'' ("The Jewess") is a French grand opera in five acts by Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862)[],  with an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe ()[].
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#REDIRECT [[La Juif]]
 
 
 
 
Not to be confused with Halévy's  other opera, ''[[Le Juif Errant]]'' ("the Wandering Jew")
 
 
 
, based on the novel by Sue, was premiered at the Paris Opera (Salle Le Peletier) on 23 April 1852, and had 48 further performances over two seasons.
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
''[[La Juife]]'' ("The Jew") of 1835,  with a libretto by Eugène Scribe. A later version of the French work, entitled ''[[Le Juif Errant]]'' ("the wandering Jew") appeared in 1852, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The French work was first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 23 February 1835.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
The Scribe libretto was adapted into [[Dutch]] as a "Groot Melodrama" ("great melodrama")  called '''''[[De Jodin]]''''' ("The Jewess") by W. Hempel ()[] and published in Utrecht by L.E. Bosch in 1838.
 
 
 
Also the source of ''[[De Zwervende Jood]]'' ("The Wandering Jew"), a [[Dutch]] play by [[Joseph Suasso de Lima]]. 
 
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
Possibly translated from one of two French operas by Fromental Halévy, most probably ''[[La Juife]]'' ("The Jew") of 1835,  with a libretto by Eugène Scribe. A later version of the French work, entitled ''[[Le Juif Errant]]'' ("the wandering Jew") appeared in 1852, with a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
The [[Dutch]] play was performed in Cape Town in 1837. The translation was never published.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 256-265, 374
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
== Return to ==
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]
 
 
 
Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1892: Performed as ''[[De Jodin]]'' by [[amateur]]s drawn from the societies [[Aurora]] and [[De Eendracht]] in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 5 July, with ''[[Het Dorpspleidooi]]'' (Van Ray).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the Dutch text by Hempel, Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=x-NNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=De+Jodin+door+Hempel&source=bl&ots=uIbyvijGtu&sig=ACfU3U1HjZecdhfRXI47L_uPS1Nf5Edn6w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz3bG6gs3kAhUUsHEKHaqQCigQ6AEwD3oECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=De%20Jodin%20door%20Hempel&f=false]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 451
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
== Return to ==
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]
 
 
 
Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
 
 
 
Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
 
 
 
Return to [[Main Page]]
 

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