June 29, 2007
'The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America'
In 1892, a play premiered in New York that became a staple of Yiddish theater. Yet nothing indicates that Jacob Gordin's The Jewish King Lear was ever performed or printed, at least not as originally written. Welcome to a debut of sorts.
The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America (Yale University Press) combines a translation of Gordin's play by the late Ruth Gay, a writer on Jewish life and history, with four essays: three by Ms. Gay, who died in 2006, and one by her daughter Sophie
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