# Young Theater

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**Young Theater** (Polish: *Teatr Młodych*, Yiddish: יינג טעאטער) was an [experimental theatre](/source/Experimental_theatre) started in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw) in 1929 by [Michał Weichert](/source/Micha%C5%82_Weichert), with support from the [Kultur Lige](/source/Kultur_Lige). The theater aimed to teach new actors from working-class backgrounds, who often had some amateur experience.[1] Weichert set up stages throughout the hall or venue, and immersed with the audience, using lighting to direct the attention of the audience.[2][3]

Several prominent members of Yiddish drama in Warsaw were involved with the theater, such as composer [Henech Kon](/source/Henech_Kon), set designer [Szymon Syrkus](/source/Szymon_Syrkus), and director [Jakub Rotbaum](/source/Jakub_Rotbaum). Young Theater had limited resources and faced frequent police incursions starting in 1936, changing its name many times, from 1937, the New Theater, but was able to put on many productions until the Nazi [invasion of Poland](/source/Invasion_of_Poland) in 1939.[1]

## Productions

Some of the productions at the theater include:[1]

- *Boston* by [Bernhard Blume](/source/Bernhard_Blume_(writer)) (February 1933)
- *Trupe Tanentsap* by Weichert (September 1933)
- *Napoleon’s Treasure*
- *Krasin* (March 1934)
- *The Gold Diggers* (1934)
- *Simkhe Plakhte* by [Yankev Preger](/source/Yankev_Preger) (1935)
- *Mississippi* by [Leib Malach](/source/Leib_Malach) (March 1935)
- *[Woyzeck](/source/Woyzeck)* by [Georg Büchner](/source/Georg_B%C3%BCchner) (1936)
- *[The Travels of Benjamin III](/source/The_Travels_of_Benjamin_III)* by [Mendele Moykher-Sforim](/source/Mendele_Moykher-Sforim) (1937)
- *[An American Tragedy](/source/An_American_Tragedy)* by [Theodore Dreiser](/source/Theodore_Dreiser) (1938)
- *Kinder fun shtotishe gasn* by [Halina Górska](/source/Halina_G%C3%B3rska)
- *Marzipans* by [Kadia Molodowsky](/source/Kadia_Molodowsky)

## References

1. Steinlauf, Michael C. ["Yung-teater"](https://devencyclopedia.yivo.org/article/288). *[The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe](/source/The_YIVO_Encyclopedia_of_Jews_in_Eastern_Europe)*. Retrieved June 16, 2025.

1. ["Young Theater (Yung Teater)"](https://exhibitions.yivo.org/items/show/2356). *[YIVO](/source/YIVO)*. Retrieved June 12, 2025.

1. Alt Miller, Yvette. ["Lost World of Yiddish Theater"](https://aish.com/lost-world-of-yiddish-theater/). *[Aish HaTorah](/source/Aish_HaTorah)*. Retrieved June 12, 2025.

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