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Mosenthal, S. H. (Salomon Hermann), 1821-1877. Deborah (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Mosenthal, S. H. (Salomon Hermann), 1821-1877. Deborah

Deborah and her sisters, [2018]: Penn Press website (Deborah, by Jewish writer S.H. Mosenthal; a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover; debuted 1849 in Hamburg, followed by performances throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America; spawned adapdations, burlesques, poems, operas in Italian and Czech, musical selections for voice and piano, three American silent films, and thousands of souvenir photographs of leading acresses from Adelaide Ristori to Sarah Bernhardt in character as the author's forsaken Jewess)

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