A Tale of Two Museums

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Click on the audio guides throughout the website to hear "A Tale of Two Museums" an audio-visual story of two Yiddish theater museums, both founded in 1926. What does this story tell us about Interwar Poland's Yiddish Art Theater?

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1 | New York’s Yiddish Theater and Its Museum

2 | New York’s Yiddish Theater until 1926

3 | New York’s Yiddish Theater after 1926

4 | The Yiddish Theatrical Museum

5 | Poland’s Yiddish Theater and Its Museum

6 | The Dybbuk as Forerunner to Theater Museum

7 | Visionaries of Poland's Yiddish Avant-Garde

8 | Literary Theater Troupes and Miniature Theater

9 | Yiddish Plays on Poland's Avant-Garde Stage

10 | Translations and Adaptations

11 | The Esther-Rachel Kaminska Yiddish Theater Museum (Warsaw 1926)