Mirele Efros (1939)

Mirele Efros the Jewish Queen Lear was the masterpiece of Ukrainianborn Jacob Gordin an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt the practice of honesty decency and devotion toward family and community This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turnofthecentury Grodno Poland