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Tsipe Abelman as Shulamis C. 1910.
Shulamis premiered under Avrom Goldfaden in 1880 in the Russian Empire. Shulamis became the most enduring operetta on the Yiddish stage
We, Women, Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska
Like her mother, Ida Kaminska sought out powerful women’s roles. And, in 1932, Ida Kaminska translated a work by one of Poland's radical feminist thinkers, Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska, into Yiddish and adapted it for the Yiddish stage.…
Cyankali, 1931
First performed in its original German in the Berlin Lessing Theatre by a group of young actors, Cyankali became one of the most controversial plays of the 1920’s. Its author, Friedrich Wolf, an Expressionist playwright and medical doctor,wrote the…
Michał Weichert (Mikhl Vaykhert, 1890-1967)
Michał Weichert (Mikhl Vaykhert, pictured in the above article on the right) was a theater director, historian, critic, and communal activist. Born in Podhajce in eastern Galicia and raised in Stanisławów, Weichert received his education at heder and…
Jakub Rotbaum (Yankev Rotboym), 1901-1994
Rotbaum, Jewish theatrical director and painter, was born in Wroclaw. He was the older brother to Lia (Lisa) Rotbaum, a choreographer and director whose name also recurs in the programs of the Esther-Rokhl Kaminska Collection. After high school, he…
Chayim-Wolf Vayntraub (b. 1891-194? Władysław Zew Wajntraub)
Set designer for Yiddish theater in interwar Poland. V. was born Lyuvitsh Poland to Hasidic parents. From a young age, he was drawn to sketching and painting. A Polish art critic Tortshinksi recognized his early talents and the Polish artist,…
Kultur lige stamps
Fundraising stamps for the Kultur-lige organization
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