Formation of the genre of "Jewish" story on the concert estrada

The article traces the appearance in the 1870s of the genre of the “Jewish” story and its further existence on the concert estrada in the works of artists Pav.I. Weinberg, D.A. Bohemsky, B.S. Borisova, V. Ya. Khenkina, L.O. Utyosova and others. The author shows how, at the grassroots level, the culture of a Jewish settlement with its traditional way of life, national identity merged into the all-Russian culture and enriched it with a kind of humor, melodic speech, liveliness of language, methods of actor's reincarnation.