Green Fields
Translated from Grine felder (1916) by Peretz Hirschbein.
A pastoral romance with a happy ending. Two farmers with marriageable daughters compete to win the same innocent wandering scholar for a son-in-law.
In Yiddish, this remains a perennial favorite. The Yiddish film version, adapted by Hirschbein and filmed on Long Island in 1931 under the direction of Jacob Ben-Ami, is often screened.
The script is available in God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation, Syracuse University Press, 1999 ( amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Syracuse University Press).