Z dziejów żydowskiego amatorskiego Towarzystwa Muzyczno-Dramatycznego im. Goldfadena w Stanisławowie (1918–1932)

Abstract

This article presents the activities of Goldfagen’s Jewish Amateur Music-Dramatic Society in Stanisławów. Basing on an analysis of press and archives of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk (formerly Stanisławów), the author describes the circumstances related to the establishment of the Goldfagen’s Society, its programme framework, the repertoire, as well as the difficulties that the Jewish amateur theatre encountered during its activity, related to the difficulties in obtaining permits for the public performance of plays. The article discusses also the influence of prominent members of the Society on the development of the Jewish dramatic theatre in Stanisławów, including Horacy Safrin and the director, Dawid Herman. The amateur theatre, which started by playing revues, one-act plays and farces, moved with time to a serious dramatic repertoire, with which it performed not only in Stanisławów, but throughout the whole eastern part of the interwar Poland.