Moyshe Broderzon, 1890-1956

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Moshe Broderzon was born in Moscow the grandson of the Hasidic master, Rebbe Itsikl Raskin. When his family was exiled from Moscow, Broderzon settled with his grandfather in Łódź and was brought up going to kheyder and became a bookkeeper. He spent WWI and the Revolution in Moscow. Broderson sought to create a new vocabulary for the expression of modern Jewish art that was multi-faceted. He sought to integrate decorative arts, performance, music, word, and text. He insisted that Yiddish culture have a relationship with culture beyond Yiddish while at the same time he advocated the cultivation of Yiddish culture’s “internal cultural impulses.” Along with Weichert, he was one of the founders of the modernist Yiddish group Young Yidish and published Expressionistic "dramaletn" or small dramas: A Snow Dance (A shney-tants) and Tsungalungn, a marionette performance, and wrote and directed for the experimental marionette theater Ararat.

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RG8

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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Text

Moshe Broderzon (1890- ) born in Moscow the grandson of the Hasidic master, Rebbe Itsikl Raskin. When his family was exiled from Moscow, B. settled with his grandfather in Lodz and was brought up going to kheyder and became a bookkeeper. He spent WWI and the Revolution in Moscow. Broderson sought to create a new vocabulary for the expression of modern Jewish art that was multi-faceted. He sought to integrate decorative arts, performance, music, word, and text. He insisted that Yiddish culture have a relationship with culture beyond Yiddish while at the same time he advocated the cultivation of Yiddish culture’s “internal cultural impulses.” Along with Weichert, he was one of the founders of the modernist Yiddish group Young Yidish and published Expressionistic "dramaletn" or small dramas: a Snow Dance (a shney-tants) and Tsungalungn (marionette performance) and wrote and directed for the experimental marionette theater Ararat.

Translation

" A R A R A T"

THE SYNTHETIC THEATER

Kamets alef--O! Kamets Beys --Bo! Kamets Giml Go!...

Green beards, red beards, blue beards?
...All this is other, bizarre, and WONDERFUL, because it is not just accidental, caprice, desire to show the world with one's head bowed, but just the opposite--to show in happiness of a festival, in play, in dream, stripped of grey worrisome quotidien matters.

Synthetic Theater is the coming together of all the artistic possibilities, the congealing of the living word, the living color, the living musical sound, the rythmic movement that creates wholeness in creative ONENESS (ECHAD)...

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“Moyshe Broderzon, 1890-1956,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed March 23, 2023, https://ataleoftwomuseums.yivo.org/items/show/2163.

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