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Our Beliefs (Unzer Gloyben) 1925.
A playbill of a Yiddish theater production atthe Liga Cultural Israelita, Porto Alegre
The Wolves, Romain Rolland
Zygmunt Turkow translated, staged, and acted in a Yiddish version of The Wolvesby French writer and Nobel Prize winner, Romain Rolland (1866-1944). Rolland was a significant influence on participants of the Interwar Yiddish Art Theater. He was an…
At Night at the Old Marketplace
Although written before World War I, Y.L. Peretz'sAt Night in the Old Marketplacerose to become a symbol of the creative ambition of interwar Yiddish theater directors. Adhering closely to the form and even the content of Staniślav Wyśpianski's The…
The Vilna Troupe, 1919
The Vilner Troupe coalesced during World War I--in 1915-- in the wake of Germany's conquest of Vilna. It began with the petition by Leyb Kadison and Alexander Azra (b.1892), both painters by training and amateur actors, OF the German military for…
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