The Golden Bride

[1] Die Goldene Kale premiered in 1923 with music by Joseph Rumshinsky, lyrics by Louis Gilrod and a book by Frieda Freiman at Kessler's Second Avenue Theater, on New York's Lower East Side.

The popular show was produced in Yiddish-speaking communities in Europe, North and South America for a quarter of a century, but forgotten after its last run in 1948.

[3] Ochs was searching for some of the musical's missing text in the archive at the Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut in New York, when the archivist, Chana Mlotek, suggested that he should speak to her son, Zalmen, artistic director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

The first act is set in Russian Jewish village (shtetl) where the beautiful Goldele, who was abandoned as a child, has learned that she has inherited a fortune from her father who had gone off to America shortly after her birth.

She plans to embark on a journey across the globe to claim her father's estate and meet her birth mother, whilst potentially finding love along the way.