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Edited from manuscripts and printed versions with an Introduction
This collection contains all the Yiddish plays that have come down to us from when Yiddish drama first emerged until the mid-eighteenth century: 'A Nice Purim Play'; 'Ahasuerus Play'; 'The Play of Mordecai and Esther'; 'Ahasuerus Play Like an Opera'; 'Acta Esther and Ahasuerus'; 'The Selling of Joseph'; 'David and Goliath the Philistine'; and 'The Play of Moses our Teacher.'