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ARTEF Arbeter Teater Farband (Workers Theater Association, 1925-1940)
Organized by the Young Workers' League, the ARTEF was the Yiddish workers' art theater that operated within the orbit of the American Jewish communism. It was most active during the Depression years. According the theater historian Edna Nahshon, "it…
American Yiddish literary drama: Asch and Pinski
Among the most literary of Yiddish playwrights that surface at the beginning of the twentieth century are Dovid Pinski and Sholem Asch.
Dovid Pinski (1872-1959)
Pinski emigrated to America in 1899, remaining there until finally settling in…
Dovid Pinski (1872-1959)
Pinski emigrated to America in 1899, remaining there until finally settling in…
Mata Hari, 1934
A play about the double agent who used her powers of seduction to extract military secrets from her many lovers. Her life had inspired two films by the time Dina Halpern appeared in the play by the same name in Scala Theater in Warsaw. One in Germany…
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