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Program, Baruch Lumet Recitation
Recitations were an abiding aspect of Yiddish theatrical acting culture from the founding of the modern Yiddish theater by Avrom Goldfaden, a practiced declaimer of Yiddish poetry. Recitations remained popular during the interwar period with the…
Guest appearance by the famous actors, Borisova , Poliakov and Rabinovitsh, program
A program for a performance of an operetta calledA Happy Night adapted in Yiddish (source unknown). It featured the actressBetty (nee Borisova)Kompanyets Rabinovitsh (b.1900), Aharon Poliakov (b.1891), and Leon Rabinovitsh (1886-1960).
The Theater Museum Collection as a Time Capsule of Jewish Life
YIVO grew the holdings of their Theater Museum Collection into a virtual treasure trove of historical information. It grew to include items from Yiddish-language performance that predate the establishment of the Yiddish theater as a modern form, as…
Dovid Herman, 1876-1937
Dovid Herman was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a well-off Hasidic family. His father was an antiques dealer. He studied in religious primary school and in synagogue study hall, but at the age of fifteen he interrupted his studies and became an…
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