Mazel-tov (Yiddish: מזל טוב, Yiddish: mazel tov; Russian title either «Мазлтов» or «Поздравляем», 1889), is a one-act Yiddish-language play by Sholem Aleichem. The play focuses on the relationship between servants, the cook Beyle, and the upstairs rich, the Landlord. One memorable servant song from the 1889 play "Bitter is the food That gets burnt, Bitter is it to work Beyond your strength", was later recycled and included into the 1949 and 1969 Jewish Theatre, Warsaw production of The Gold Diggers. The play was revived after the Revolution among the repertoire of the Moscow Yiddish Chamber Theater (GOSET) in the 1920s. It was set as an opera Congratulations! (Russian: «Поздравляем!» , Op. 111) by Mieczysław Weinberg in 1975.
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- Театральная энциклопедия - Volume 5 - Page 905 Стефан Стефанович Мокульский, Павел Александрович Марков - 1967 "Наиболее примечательны его одноактные пьесы — «Мазлтов» («Поздравляем», 1889), «Агенты» (1905), «Люди» (1908), ... ШНЕЕР-ШОЛОМ-АЛЕЙХЕМ.
- Jacob Weitzner Sholem Aleichem in the Theater 1994 - Page 57 0838636365 "The song was taken from another maid in another Sholem Aleichem sketch entitled: Mazel Tov: "Bitter ..." " written in 1889, focused on the conflict between downstairs and upstairs."
- Benjamin Harshav, Marc Chagall, Barbara Harshav Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative- 2004 0804742146-Page 280 "Chagall and the actor Shloyme Mikhoels as Reb Alter in Mazel-tov, a one-act play by Sholem Aleichem. performed by the Yiddish Chamber Theater in Moscow, ..."
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