It's Hard to be a Jew
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It's Hard to be a Jew (Yiddish: Shver tsu zayn a yid) is a Yiddish-language comedy play by Sholom Aleichem about the difficulty of Jewish-Gentile relationships in the Russian Empire.[1] Written in 1914,[2] it was premiered at The Yiddish Art Theatre, Second Avenue, New York on 1 October 1920, and revived in 1949.[3] The play was adapted at the Eden Theater in 1973 with new melodies by Sholom Secunda.[4]
