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The professional Yiddish theatre began to come of age, and to spread, remarkably quickly. While broad comedies and lavish spectacles often fed company coffers, playwrights and troupes also embraced the newest trends and techniques behind a new golden age of Western theatre and drama.

1876–1899
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1918–1945
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