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The Collection: a Wealth of Jewish History
The Museum Collection is distinctive for its vast quantity of newspaper clippings of reviews and interviews, and programs and playbills that provide detailed information about the social and cultural life of Polish Jewry from the late 19th century to…
Art Theater in Big American Cities
Program for The Vilna Troupe in Los Angeles 1924/1925
The Death of Esther Rachel Kaminska
In My Life, My Theater,Ida Kaminska writes movingly about her mother's failing health and their final performance together shortly before Esther-Rachel died. In the play, Jacob Gordin'sMirele Efros, Esther-Rachel played Mirele and Ida, her…
Zygmunt Turkow, 1896-1970
"In contrast to the old ensemble Kaminski Theater, where most of the people had been old and had a primitive education, our new ensemble consisted of young, intelligent people. One of them was the twenty-year-old Sigmund Turkow, a graduate of the…
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