“The Golden Land” has a lot of historical plot to condense as it chugs through a two-hour rendition of the entire New York Jewish immigrant experience, from the 1880s to the 1940s. In montages and medleys, partly in Yiddish and partly in English, we are transported to Ellis Island, the Lower East Side, the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, union protests, two world wars, the Holocaust, the migration to Harlem, an adaptation of “King Lear,” a confrontation with Ivy League admissions quotas and the founding of a Jewish state.

A seven-piece band infuses the history lesson with rousing period music from klezmer, Tin Pan Alley and various other Yiddish pop and folk traditions. Many of the original Yiddish lyrics have been translated into English by Zalmen Mlotek, Moishe Rosenfeld and Jacques Levy, who developed earlier productions of the show in the 1980s.

And while I don’t usually condone unsolicited audience singalongs, it was endearing to hear older audience members perk up and warble along with some old Yiddish chestnut, usually sputtering out, once the familiar chorus was over.