Yiddish performance tragedy: Why it's illegal to yell ‘fire!’ in theater
It was drawn from a tragedy that occurred on a cold night in January 1887 at the Hebrew Dramatic Club of London and took the lives of 17 people.
Yiddish theater members, from right, Jacob Adler, Zigmund Feinman, Zigmund Mogulesko, Rudolf Marx, Mr. Krastoshinsky and David Kessler in 1888.(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByHENRY ABRAMSON/JTA
