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Yet more ambitious in conception and scale, “Bay nakht afn altn mark” (A Night in the Old Marketplace; 1907) brings together more than 100 characters, living and dead, from every stratum of Jewish society in a phantasmagoric review of Jewish life in Poland.
Peretz’s two dramatic poems, Di goldene keyt (The Golden Chain; 1907–1912) and “Bay nakht afn altn mark” (A Night in the Old Marketplace; 1907–1914) herald Yiddish poetic modernism. Di goldene keyt captures the characteristic atmosphere of a Hasidic court where the desire for the continuity of traditional yidishkayt clashes with the ...
Frank London will bring "A Night in the Old Marketplace" to the stage at Yidstock on July 15th. This modern retelling of I.L. Peretz's 1907 play Bay nakht afn altn mark is a mad mash-up of psychedelic klezmer, Kurt Weill, and folk tunes from the Old Country gone electric.
Peretz's 1907 play Bay nakht afn altn mark ("At Night in the Old Marketplace"), set in a Jewish shtetl over the course of a single night, presents a panoramic review of Jewish life in Poland. The play was adapted into a multimedia theatrical presentation, with music by Frank London and book and lyrics by Glen Berger , in 2007.
The author analyses Isaac Leib Peretz’s play Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) through the lens of the ambivalences of the carnival, which give rise to various transgressions of socio-political and cultural, as well as metaphysical and existential, orders. The carnival category positions Peretz’s drama in the ...
1. Jan. 2021 · The author analyses Isaac Leib Peretz’s play Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace) through the lens of the ambivalences of the carnival, which give rise to various...
After a brief stay in Vilna, where he contributed to a YIVO exhibit about Peretz’s drama Bay nakht afn altn mark (A Night in the Old Marketplace), he arrived in New York via Siberia and Japan in March 1941.
