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In late August\u00a01904,\u00a0Henry James<\/a>\u00a0returned to the United States after an absence of twenty years. Upon arrival in New York, he was overwhelmed by the first views of Manhattan and the \u201cchange of things\u201d in his native city. The impression of the modern metropolis with its skyscrapers and multitude of \u201cforeigners\u201d was so profound that he was almost gasping for breath. He was not the only person who was excited. The city\u2019s cultural elite was thrilled to have the famous writer in their midst again. If we ought to believe the\u00a0New York Sun<\/em>, even on the Lower East Side plans were made to give Henry James a warm welcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among the many persons here who are anxious to honor him is Jacob M. Gordin, the Yiddish author \u2026 will arrange a special performance of his play \u201cGod, Man and Devil,\u201d for the novelist.<\/p>\nNew York Sun<\/em><\/a>, August 31, 1904.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t know why Gordin<\/a> wanted to invite James to the downtown Yiddish theatre district to see one of his classics. It is unlikely that their paths had crossed before. The question is: did they ever meet? Did James attend a performance of Gordin\u2019s much celebrated reworking of the Faust legend, or any other Yiddish play? When Gordin gave a benefit performance of Got, mentsh un tayvl <\/em>at the Thalia Theatre on the Bowery in February 1905 to raise money for the Russian revolutionaries, the New York newspapers covered the event in detail, but the press did not mention a single word about the presence of Henry James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whoever expects to find the answer to this question in The American Scene<\/a> <\/em>(1907)\u2014the book about the author\u2019s 1904\/05 trip through the United States\u2014will be disappointed. In his travel journal, James remains very vague about the people he met and the places he visited during his outings to the Lower East Side, which are recounted in chapter five (\u201cThe Bowery and thereabouts\u201d). This vagueness has been subject to many interpretations, but I have yet to see a map that shows where Henry James really went. Recently, literary scholar Peter Collister, who is preparing a commented edition of The American Scene<\/em>, asked me to help him reconstruct James\u2019s ventures into the Yiddish theatre district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first task was to see what information I could gather about these outings from the journal itself. I must admit, this was quite a challenge, and not only because James is so extremely elusive. Reading the chapter about his trips to the Bowery, I learned more about the author\u2019s deep anxiety about Jewish immigrants and other newcomers than about Yiddish culture in the early 1900s. Unlike\u00a0Hutchins Hapgood<\/a>, James had very little affinity with the\u00a0Spirit of the Ghetto<\/a>. Still, it is important to get the facts straight.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Famous Bowery as it is today.\u201d Stereopticon view, early 1900s. New York Public Library, Digital Collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The American Scene\u00a0<\/em>describes two outings to the Bowery. The first took place on a Saturday afternoon in \u201cmidwinter,\u201d when James attended a \u201cdomestic drama\u201d at the Windsor Theatre (37-39 Bowery) to see a young actor who had caught his interest. It would have been helpful if James had mentioned the name of the actor or the title of the play in which he appeared. He does tell us, however, that it was a melodrama in which the villain \u201cends up being trapped in a folding bed engulfed as in the jaws of a crocodile.\u201d Jewish immigrant audiences loved this sort of spectacle. It sounds like something out of a play by \u201cProfessor\u201d\u00a0Moyshe Hurwitz<\/a>, who excelled in crazy plot turns and wild endings. Yet, it was\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>a Hurwitz production, as some scholars assumed. For several years, Hurwitz had managed the Windsor Theatre, but with increasing difficulty due to growing competition and an outdated repertoire. In October 1904, his company collapsed as a result of the unwise decision to change from operetta to serious opera in Yiddish to attract larger crowds. Hurwitz went bankrupt and the Windsor went dark. On November 1, the American impresario and Broadway producer\u00a0A.H. Woods<\/a>\u00a0took over its lease for the remainder of the season. What Henry James saw at the Windsor in the winter of 1904\/05 was a ten\/twenty\/thirty cent melodrama in\u00a0English<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I seemed to see the so domestic drama reach out to the so exotic audience and the so exotic audience reach out to the so domestic drama. The play \u2026 was American, to intensity, in its blank conformity to convention, the particular implanted convention of the place.<\/p>\nHenry James,\u00a0The American Scene<\/em>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That James did not see a Yiddish but a mainstream American play at the Windsor sheds a different light on this section, calling into question earlier interpretations. However, this does not make James\u2019s reflections upon his theatrical experience on the Bowery less interesting, especially his ideas about the potential impact that American melodrama, with its blatant lack of realism, might have upon the \u201cso exotic audience\u201d with \u201cHebrew faces.\u201d What this section of The American Scene <\/em>also reveals is that in the early 1900s, there already was a considerable Jewish immigrant audience for English-language plays. Not a small clientele, but one that would fill the 3,500-seat Windsor Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 1905, Henry James returned to the Lower East Side for a second visit. According to his travel journal, he was accompanied by \u201ctwo or three friends,\u201c who were to show him some of \u201cthe most \u2018characteristic\u2019 evening resorts\u201d in the neighborhood. The slumming tour started in a loud working-class German beer cellar \u201cadorned with images of prize strong men and lovely women.\u201d The other places were \u201cmostly higher in scale.\u201d They also stopped at a Yiddish playhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was also, as I recall, a snatched interlude\u2014an associated dash into a small crammed convivial theatre, an oblong hall, bristling with pipe and glass, at the end of which glowed for a moment, a little dingily, some broad passage of a Yiddish comedy of manners.<\/p>\nHenry James,\u00a0The American Scene<\/em>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

James and his friends quickly left because of the filthy air, but he could get neither the image nor the smell of the place out of his mind. Unfortunately, the journal does not give any further details about the location or play, which makes it an even bigger challenge to find out what exactly happened. Beth Kaplan, the great granddaughter of Jacob Gordin, suggests that they had a glimpse at a performance of\u00a0Di varhayt\u00a0<\/em>(The Truth<\/em>), one of his latest works. But I found no evidence to support this. Gordin\u2019s play was part of the repertoire of the Thalia Theatre, which was a 3,000-seat playhouse, where smoking in the auditorium was forbidden by municipal fire safety regulations. Also, by the time James returned to the Lower East Side, the three Yiddish legitimate playhouses in downtown Manhattan had already closed down for the summer. Usually, the big stars of the New York Yiddish stage went on tour after Passover and they either subleased their theatres to English-language companies or simply shut the doors. Put differently, I think it is safe to say that on his second outing to the Bowery, James\u2014once again\u2014did not see a Yiddish drama.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thalia Theatre 1904 with bill boards for\u00a0Mirele Efros\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Di Varheyt\u00a0<\/em>by Jacob Gordin. New York Public Library, Digital Collections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So where did the friends go? I think that they visited a Yiddish variety theatre<\/a>, which was the latest novelty in the American-Yiddish entertainment business and definitely something to show on a \u201clook-in\u201d at immigrant \u201chaunts.\u201d It might have been the People\u2019s Music Hall on the Bowery, but that was still a relatively fashionable place. More likely, it was a concert saloon in the heart of the Jewish quarter, like the popular Irving Music Hall on Broome Street. These cheap entertainment venues remained open during the summer and admission was often free on the understanding that the customer ordered at least a glass of beer. The Yiddish comedy of manners at which James looked \u201cas through a spy-glass\u201d was probably not much more than an elaborate vaudeville sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose idea was it to take James to such a place? In my view, Jacob Gordin seems an ill-suited candidate. For many years, the playwright had struggled to improve the standard of the Yiddish stage, fighting\u00a0shund<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(popular plays; literally \u201ctrash\u201d) and promoting \u201cemese kunst<\/em>\u201d (true art). It makes no sense that he would take his honorable guest to a Yiddish music hall to see a bawdy variety act. Robin Hoople suggests that it was district attorney William T. Jerome who organized the trip to the East Side.1<\/a><\/sup> Jerome was a notorious anti-vice crusader and indeed the right man for the job of showing \u201clow-life\u201d on the Bowery and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henry James, Jacob Gordin\u2014it was \u201cthe most unlikely literary couple in the history of the city,\u201d according to Stefan Kanfer. They were indeed a most unlikely couple. And they probably only met in fictional accounts of Yiddish theatre history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Robin P. Hoople and Isobel Waters (ed.),\u00a0Inexorable Yankeehood:\u00a0Henry James Rediscovers America, 1904-1905\u00a0<\/em>(2009), p. 296, note 30.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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