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Description: | A tinted sepia studio photograph taken around 1900 of Benjamin Fishzon as David Moishele, and Jenny Kaiser, as his youngest daughter Teibele, in Jacob Gordin's Yiddish play 'The Jewish King Lear'. Adapted by Gordin from Shakespeare,'The Jewish King Lear' is the story of an aging father in 1892 Vilna who divides his fortune to his three daughters and leaves for Palestine. But greed does not allow his daughters to enjoy the fortune, and they force the father to go back to Vilna as a beggar. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Out of copyright. | Subjects: | Communities Leisure | Temporal: | 1900 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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