Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music has roots in the Yiddish theater. It thrived in the Bowery area of New York City’s Lower East Side from the 1880s into the mid-20th century and expanded into a network of theaters in Jewish communities around the country. The collection also features popular arrangements of folk songs and sacred songs as well as instrumental numbers. Some compositions, most notably those of composer and violinist Abe Schwartz, became standards in the field of klezmer music.

The first Yiddish play to be translated, adapted, and staged on Broadway was Jacob Gordin's Di kreytser sonata [The Kreutzer Sonata].

Two lectures on Yiddish sheet music and on Yiddish American musical theatre (Yale University)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtv-vIUPH3w