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Recitations on the Yiddish Stage
An accomplished actor and reciter of the Yiddish word, Baruch Lumet (1898-1992) grew up outside Warsaw where he fell in love with theater. He joined a Polish theater troupe as a child and eventually joined the Vilna Troupe. After immigrating to New…
Yiddishe Bande Troupe in NYC, advertisement
This is an English-language program from a visit from Yiddish Band Company, a cabaret group based in Warsaw. The troupe visited New York in 1938. The detailed program, one of the only surviving of its kind, gives us insight into its performances,…
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
This Yiddish stage version of Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy was directed by Jakub Rotman (1901–1994). It might have been inspired by the 1931 American film version of the novel. The film is based on Dreiser's 1925 novel An American Tragedy,…
Director and Impresario Nahum Lipovski (1874-1928)
Studio photograph of Lipovski surrounded by a group of actors. Lipovski was the founder of Vilna's The People's Theater that staged a variety of works and was sought to make their productions accessible to the working-class.
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