Louis David Reingold (1875-1944), born Eliezer Dovid Ozharov, was a Yiddish theater playwright, writer, editor, and labor organizer. His plays were performed in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities in the U.S. and Canada. Unpublished...
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Louis David Reingold (1875-1944), born Eliezer Dovid Ozharov, was a Yiddish theater playwright, writer, editor, and labor organizer. His plays were performed in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities in the U.S. and Canada. Unpublished manuscripts of his plays are in the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library and in the Library of Congress. Play scripts include: Ihr mames border: komedye [Her mother's border: comedy] -Der kluger nar/The wise fool: drama in 3 acts -Idish blut, oder daytshland in flamen: tsaydrama in 3 akten [Jewish blood, or Germany in flames: time-drama in 3 acts] -Idisher tsigayner [Jewish Gypsy] - operetta/musical comedy in 3 acts, Chicago -Der eybiker kampf [Eternal Struggle] - 1930's Chicago Time-drama in 3 acts -Ver iz shuldig? Who is guilty? Life-scene in 3 acts -Kunst un liebe, oder dayn bruders froy/Art and love, or, your brother's wife - 2 copies of the second act of "Bar Mitzvah" -Leymene mentshn/Clay people in three acts with a prologue [also includes synopsis in English] -Tate-mame nakhes [Mom and dad pride]: family scene of worker life -The peddler: scene for two -Reyzele: comedy in one act -Various scripts.
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