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''[[Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs]]'' is a play by Augustin Daly ()[].
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''[[Deborah]]'' is a German play by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal ()[]
  
Also found as '''''[[Leah, the Forsaken]]''''' or simply '''''[[Leah]]'''''.
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==The original text== 
  
Based on ''[[Deborah]]'' by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal ()[] (itself inspired by certain elements in Walter Scott's ''[[Ivanhoe]]''), first performed in Vienna in 1849.  
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Based on a theme in Sir Walter Scott's famous novel ''[[Ivanhoe]]''), Mosenthal's version was 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.
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==Translations and adaptations==
  
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'''''[[Leah, the Forsaken]]''''' (or simply '''''[[Leah]]''''') by Augustin Daly ()[] was the first English version, originally performed in New York in 1862, followed by a run in the Adelphi Theatre, London during 1863-4.
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''[[Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs]]''  a version by
  
 
Nadia Valman. 2007. ''The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture'', Cambridge University Press: p.34-39[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Qcm38iPJyMkC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=Leah+the+Forsaken,+or+The+Jewish+Maiden%27s+Wrongs+is+a+play+by+Augustine+Daly&source=bl&ots=F6ke52AQRx&sig=ACfU3U2NlOZ_uCiCQdipR7MLI0xgRPOTew&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbsda7oK7nAhVJ1hoKHSoFBo4Q6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leah%20the%20Forsaken%2C%20or%20The%20Jewish%20Maiden's%20Wrongs%20is%20a%20play%20by%20Augustine%20Daly&f=false]
 
Nadia Valman. 2007. ''The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture'', Cambridge University Press: p.34-39[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Qcm38iPJyMkC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=Leah+the+Forsaken,+or+The+Jewish+Maiden%27s+Wrongs+is+a+play+by+Augustine+Daly&source=bl&ots=F6ke52AQRx&sig=ACfU3U2NlOZ_uCiCQdipR7MLI0xgRPOTew&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbsda7oK7nAhVJ1hoKHSoFBo4Q6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leah%20the%20Forsaken%2C%20or%20The%20Jewish%20Maiden's%20Wrongs%20is%20a%20play%20by%20Augustine%20Daly&f=false]

Revision as of 18:44, 31 January 2020

Deborah is a German play by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal ()[]

The original text

Based on a theme in Sir Walter Scott's famous novel Ivanhoe), Mosenthal's version was first performed in Vienna in 1849.

Translations and adaptations

Leah, the Forsaken (or simply Leah) by Augustin Daly ()[] was the first English version, originally performed in New York in 1862, followed by a run in the Adelphi Theatre, London during 1863-4.

Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs a version by

Nadia Valman. 2007. The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture, Cambridge University Press: p.34-39[1]