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Anti-Hasidic
"The Haskalah movement attempted to transmit to the Yiddish-speaking, Hebrew-reading Jews the thought and literature of the non-Jewish world through articles, essays, plays, poems, and songs. Although it did not attack religion, it did satirize the…
Salon Circolo Napolitano concert 1909
Program, Shlomile Milner
Gertsedek
Yiddish plays
Golem
Photo
The Life of Esther-Rachel Kaminska
This theater museum collection’s namesake is Esther-Rachel (Ester-Rokhl) Kaminska. Esther-Rachel’s reputation was marked by her far-reaching talent as a preeminent Yiddish actor, the maternal presence she projected to her fellow actors and admirers,…
Writing the history of the Yiddish theater
The founding of the Theater Museum coincided with the fiftieth anniversary or jubilee of modern Yiddish theater, founded in 1876 by the Russian-Jewish intellectual and impresario, Avrom Goldfadn. In 1926, efforts were well underway to write the…
Program from a play with Lidya Pototska (?-?) called "Romance" (Romans)
Romancewaswritten by Edward Sheldon (1886-1946) in 1913 and was legendary on the stage and on the screen. It is no wonder it captured the attention of actors in Eastern Europe.The drama wasmade into a 1920 silent film and 1930 motion picture with…
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