Goldfaden’s Bar Kokhba in Hebrew

On January 25, the premiere of Avrom Goldfaden’s musical play Bar Kokhba translated into Hebrew took place at the Malenkiy Theater in Tel Aviv. Goldfaden, nicknamed “the father of Jewish theater”, staged this play for the first time in 1883 in Odessa (originally in Yiddish, of course). It immediately received great applause. This work, now celebrating 140 years since its debut, is long known to be an extremely important milestone in the history of Jewish theatrical art.

The rhymed translation of the play into Hebrew was made by Vicki Shifris. The new production was directed by the actress Esti Nissim who acts primarily in Yiddish.