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One of the earliest extant depictions of a Purim spiel: woodcut

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Unwanted Guests Reb Yeshaya Priwes was not enamored of the Purim players, or of their plays. He had no liking for simple people, and theater was certainly not his scene. When Purim came, however, he...
פורים שפיל בגרסת היידישפיל. סצנה מתוך ההצגה 'די מגילה' המועלית כיום על ידי תאטרון היידישפיל

Megilla with a Secular Twist

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The Megilla’s Darker Side Itzik Manger was born in 1901 in Czernowitz, although one version of the biography he invented for himself claimed that his tailor father had migrated from Romania, and that he himself...
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