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The Duke (Der Dukus) or Righteous Convert, 1925
The extraoridnary talent, Alter-Sholem Kacyzne (Yiddish, Katsizne, 1885-1941) is best known for his photographs. As a photographer working in Poland for the New York-based Forward newspaper, he became one of the most important documentarians of…
The Seven Who Were Hanged, Leonid Andreyev
Pictured here is director Zygmunt Turkow’s translated and adapted version of The Seven Who Were Hanged (Di Zibn Gehongene, 1929). The short story by the Russian writer Leonid Andreyev, originally published in 1908, is believed to have influenced the…
Innovative Set Design on the Yiddish Art Stage
For this drama, rather than recreating a realistic looking Eastern European shtetl onstage, Aronson created what he described as an “atmospheric set, architecturally framing the action of a classical Yiddish tragedy.” Rather than replicating the…
War Years by Yitskhak Dov Berkovitsh, program
This is a program of a performance ofWar Yearsby the Hebrew and Yiddish writer Yitskhak Dov Berkovitsh (1885-1967). The performance was sponsored by the left-wing group African Gezerd (Society for Settling the Jews on the Land in the USSR) that…
The Yiddish Gang
Di Yidishe Bande (The Yiddish Gang) began in Kaliszin 1932, then moved to Łódź and Warsaw and toured Poland until World War II. Its name was an allusion to a popular Polish cabaret known as Banda (The Gang). Consisting exclusively of professional…
THE VILNA TROUPE, newspaper coverage and program
The Vilna Troupe was a network of theater troupes (of 250 actors) that grew from a single troupe (of 15 actors) that formed in German-occupied Vilna during World War One. It was one of a number of troupes during this period that sought to produce…
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