Y.
VELTSHER
He was a wedding entertainer and
author of folksongs. He appears as the
author of Mekhires yoysef (The sale
of Joseph) (Lemberg, 1893), reissued several times, among them: (Vilna, 1908),
32 pp. This was a play based on the
selling of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible, written in verse and interspersed with
the Hebrew text. He would likely also
have been the author of Akhashveyresh-shpil
(Aḥashverosh play) (Vilna,
1926), 32 pp., as can be seen in the introductory poem which begins both plays:
“The event of Joseph and his brother” (in the Joseph play) and “The event of Aḥashverosh
and the two queens” (in the Aḥashverosh play); and ends in both: “With sweet
words and splendid songs / To sing at Purim with a cup in one’s hand / In every
city and in every land.”
Sources:
Sh. Bostomski, Purim-shpiln (Purim
plays) (Vilna, 1926); Dr. Y. Shiper, Geshikhte
fun yidisher teater-kunst un drame (History of Yiddish theatrical art and
drama), vol. 3 (Warsaw, 1928), p. 265.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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