| 1881 | Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer. The Irish-born playwright's drama concerns a Jewish immigrant who gives up life as a traveling salesman to work in a jewelry store, only to lose his job when a coworker is wrongly accused of a crime. |
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