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The Witch of Botoşani or simply The Witch or The Sorceress (original Yiddish title Die Kishufmacherin) was an 1878, or possibly 1887, play by Abraham Goldfaden. Like most of Goldfaden's major works, it was an operetta.

The play was based on popular superstition; Goldfaden would later remark, "I wrote Di kishofmeherin (The Witch
) in Romania, where the populace – Jews as much as Romanians – believe strongly in witches." The title role, a female character, was written to be played by a man; it was first played by Israel Grodner. The play survived into a far different era of Yiddish theater: Maurice Schwartz played it at New York City's Yiddish Art Theater in 1925.

Jacob Adler made his 1878 stage debut in the role of the lover Marcus, in a production in Kherson, Ukraine, in which Israel Rosenberg played the title role.

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