Jewish Immigrant Theatre and the Argentinean Avant-Gardes: The Case of <i>Ibergus</i> in 1926 Buenos Aires
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Abstract
The 1926 production of Yiddish playwright Leib Malakh’s Ibergus, a naturalistic play featuring a Jewish prostitute, has been interpreted as the culmination of Jewish immigrant efforts to “cleanse” the Argentinean Yiddish theatres of their supposed proprietors: a ring of Jewish pimps. Scholars focus on how Ibergus, directed using avant-gardist staging techniques by Yakov Botoshansky, contested the influence of the Jewish prostitution ring, which allegedly insisted that Yiddish impresarios produce a “lowbrow” repertoire rather than modernist plays. This essay offers a new understanding of the significance of Ibergus by arguing that it continued a longstanding trend of avant-garde Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires and within transnational performance networks. By attending to multiple dimensions of this production – including the surrounding intra-ethnic conflict, construction of public discourse, and staging elements – I show how the creators of Ibergus exploited dominant assumptions about the Yiddish theatre’s rumoured relationship to prostitution for their own professional gain. Doing so reveals the significance of Ibergus in the history and theorization of the theatrical avant-gardes and contributes to conversations about the relationship between discourse and practice in global theatre histories.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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