Works For Theater
The following list is drawn from Bercovici's own history of Yiddish theater in Romania . The list may be incomplete; many of Bercovici's works were musical and folkloric revues and some were reworkings of Purim plays. The music for most of Bercovici's plays was composed by Haim Schwartzmann; "The Golden Thread" also uses music by Avram Goldfaden, whom the play is about. Schwartzmann and Eugen Koffler contributed music for A Pearl Necklace and Baraşeum '72; Mangheriada used music by Schwartzmann, Koffler, Dubi Seltzer, Henech Cohn, and Simha Schwartz; a 1976 production of "The Golden Thread" credits additional music by Adalbert Winkler.
The list contains Romanian-language titles and Yiddish-language titles with Romanian phonetic transcription. Some works had only a Romanian language title; when titles in both languages are given by Bercovici, the Romanian title precedes the Yiddish. Unless otherwise noted, the date given is that of first performance by the State Jewish Theater.
- Revista revistelor ("Revue of revues"), December 15, 1958.
- Un cîntec şi o glumă / A lid mit a viţ ("A Song and a Joke"), April 15, 1958.
- O revistă cu Ahaşveroş ("A revue with Ahasuerus"), December 30, 1959.
- Ciri-biri-bom, cowritten with Aurel Storin, Moişe Bălan, Malvina Cohn, December 30, 1960.
- Oaspeţi în Oraş / Ghest in ştot ("Guest in the City"), April 15, 1961.
- O seară de folclor evreiesc / An ovnt fun idişn folklor ("An evening of Yiddish Folklore"), October 4, 1962.
- Cu cîntec spre stele / Mit a lid ţu di ştern ("With a Song to the Stars"), February 13, 1963.
- Purim-şpil ("Purim play"), March 24, 1963.
- Recital de dansuri, versuri şi cîntece ("Recital of dances, verses, and songs"), April 7, 1963.
- Spectacol de umor şi folclor muzical evreiesc / Idişer humor un musicakişer folklor ("Yiddish humor and musical folklore")
- Firul de aur / Der goldener fodem ("The Golden Thread"), October 25, 1963.
- Un şirag de perle / A şnirl perl ("A Pearl Necklace"), April 2, 1967.
- Amintiri de revelion / Nai-iur-zihroines ("New Year's Memories"), December 31, 1967.
- Cîntarea cîntărilor ("Song of Songs"), an experimental Romanian-language theater piece, based on Hebrew poetry, March 5, 1968.
- Mangheriada, based on the poems of Itzik Manger, April 6, 1968.
- Baraşeum '72, February 5, 1972. (Baraşeum was the old name of the theater that became the State Jewish Theater.)
- Scrisori pe portativ ("Letters on a Musical Staff"), August 16, 1975.
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