''Di goldgreber'' (The gold diggers) is a play by

Sholem Aleichem ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Pereiaslav, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = New York City, U.S. , occupation = Writer , nationality = , period = , genre = Novels, sh ...

, in the tradition of

Yiddish theatre Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues ...

. Originally called ''The Treasure'' in its earlier incarnation, Aleichem changed the title after another play appeared with the same name. The subject is a comedy of

shtetl A shtetl or shtetel (; yi, שטעטל, translit=shtetl (singular); שטעטלעך, romanized: ''shtetlekh'' (plural)) is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before ...

life thrown into chaos by rumours of Napoleonic gold having been buried in the Jewish cemetery.Joel Berkowitz, Barbara Henry ''Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage'' 2012 Page 147 "which premiered in July 1934, was Weichert's version of Sholem Aleichem's ''Di goldgreber (The gold diggers),'' about a shtetl that goes berserk searching for gold, allegedly hidden in the cemetery by Napoleon" The Polish State Jewish Theatre revived the play, using the original title ''The Treasure,'' in 1949.

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