[117] Cf. Abramsky, Bomas Jischok, which gives an account of that period.
[118] See Die Jüdische Bühne. (The Jewish Stage.) Herausgegeben zum 20 jährigen Jubiläum vun dem jüdischen Theater. Publisher, J. Katzenellenbogen, New York, 1897; about 800 pages, irregularly marked. In this volume the most important contribution, though far from exhaustive, is by M. Seiffert, Die Geschichte vun jüdischen Theater, In drei Zeit-perioden, 47 pp. For the condition of the theatre at its beginning, in Roumania, see Abramsky, Bomas Jischok. For its later development cf. J. Lifschitz, Dās jüdische Theater un' die jüdische Schauspieler, Rezensie über dās jüdische Theater in Warschau, in Jüd. Volksblatt, Vol. VIII. (Beilage), pp. 773-784 (No. 26); Meisach, Dās jüdische Theater, in Hausfreund, Vol. I. pp. 160-165; Unser Theater, in Jüd. Volkskalender, Vol. III. pp. 81-86; Rombro, Der jüdischer Theater in America, in Stādt-anzeiger, No. I. pp. 5-9; No. II. pp. 8-13; J. Jaffa, Der jüdischer Theater wie er is', in Jüd.-Amer. Volkskalender, 1895-96, pp. 60-63. See also the bibliography in Sistematičeskij ukazatel', p. 211 (Nos. 3137-3149), and pp. 286, 287 (Nos. 4675 and 4676).
[119] This is a common saying for an impossible thing.
[120] Published by Copeland and Day; with permission of the publishers.