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Yiddish Actor Boris Thomashefsky
Boris Thomashefsky in a role from the play, The Hungarian Singer.
Yiddish Theater Program for Yankel Boyle
Program for a production of Leon Kobrin's "Yankel Boyle," starring David Kessler, New York. The illustration on the cover is by noted artist Saul Raskin.
Yiddish Theater Program
Program for a production at Boris Thomashefsky's People's Theater, Lower East Side, New York. With portraits of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky.
Advertisements for Lower East Side Businesses
Pages in a Yiddish theater playbill for Jacob P. Adler's production of "Shylock" at the Thalia Theater, New York. Advertisements for Lower East Side businesses, including Columbia Tea, Friedman Brothers' men's clothing store, S.S. Perlman's piano…
Americanization Class
Photograph of men attending an Americanization class run by HIAS (Hebrew Emigrant Aid Society), New York. Stars and stripes banners and a flag resembling the future flag of the State of Israel adorn the wall. Among the Yiddish signs are ones…
Seder at Ellis Island
Passover seder for newly arrived Jewish immigrants at Ellis Island, organized by HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), New York City.
Flyer Publicizing the Plight of Jewish Refugees
Flyer issued by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to publicize the plight of Jews refugees forced to camp in the no-man's-land between Bruno and Bratislava on the Czech frontier with Germany after being expelled from the Sudetenland in…
Union Cards
Union cards belonging to Max Cohen, a garment worker, New York City.
Business card of Ida Harris
Front and back of the business card of Ida Harris. The back reads, "The bearer I. Goldfarb of 101 Miller St. is absolutely in need of help. She has eight children and no money. Help her with matzos and other things if possibly she is no shnorer.…
Members of the Independent Zetler Young Men's Benevolent Association
Portrait of members of the the Independent Zetler Young Men's Benevolent Association. Founded in New York in 1904 by immigrants from Dyatlovo (Pol. Zdzieciol; Yid. Zetl), Byelorussia, the group established an old-age fund, a loan fund, and a Hevrah…
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