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Program, Baruch Lumet Recitation
Recitations were an abiding aspect of Yiddish theatrical acting culture from the founding of the modern Yiddish theater by Avrom Goldfaden, a practiced declaimer of Yiddish poetry. Recitations remained popular during the interwar period with the…
The Sanctification of the Name (Kiddush Hashem), Sholem Asch
In his memoirs, Michał Weichert describes his production of The Sanctification of the Name thus: The Sanctification of the Name played 250 times in Warsaw and, later, countless times in all of Poland's big cities. For the one hundredth performance,…
Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland
This is a membership card of Kalmen Ebel, a performer active in the Yiddish theater in the 1920s. The union was established in 1919, in the wake of the protection of minorities worked into the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles. "It was understood not…
The Yiddish Film Industry
The first synchronous Yiddish-language talkie was produced in 1929, only 18 months after the first (ever) talkie,The Jazz Singer, which, remarkably, centered on the experiences of a Jewish performer. The interwar period saw the accelerated growth of…
Shabtai Tsvi
The historical figure Shabtai Zvi (1826-1876), a spiritual leader who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish messiah and then. Active throughout the Ottoman Empire, Shabtai Tsvi was eventually arrested and imprisoned by the grand vizier Ahmed Koprulu…
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