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The Joseph Buloff Papers, 1925-1993 at NYPL
Joseph Buloff was born in 1899. The careers of Buloff, leading actor of Vilnia Troupe, and his wife, Luba Kadison, leading actress and the daughter of the founder of the Vilnia Troupe in Poland, Leib Kadison, were among the most extensive in the history of Yiddish theater. |  | Boris Aronson papers and designs at NYPL and Minotaur Gallery, Tel Aviv
The Boris Aronson Papers and Designs is made up mainly of designs, but also includes production materials, scripts, and other papers. Most of the other series are organized by production name and illustrate Aronson's thought and work processes from beginning to end. Specific materials represented include clippings, programs, scripts, and scrapbooks. The Production Materials series and Designs series include Aronson's early work for the Jewish theater,a unique aspect of this collection. Lisa Aron | | The Papers of Jacob Mestel (1884-1958)
By Solomon Rabinowitz and Itzik Gottesman
Jacob Mestel was born in Złoczów (then Galicia; now Zolochiv, Ukraine) on February 25, 1884. He attended kheyder (religious day school) and from age fourteen, the Teachers' Seminary in Lemberg (then Galicia; now L'viv, Ukraine). For a time he worked as a teacher and studied philosophy at the University of Lemberg. He later moved to Vienna and graduated from a military academy. In 1910, Mestel traveled with the Vienna Yiddish theater performing throughout Austria, Galicia, and in Germany. | | Guide to Resources in Yiddish Theatre
During the 1800s, performances of traveling bands, theater groups and jesters were becoming common in Eastern Europe, but political and social events were making life intolerable. Jews began a mass exodus from the region, targeting America as their final destination. With the majority of Jewish immigrants disembarking at Ellis Island, New York quickly became the center of Jewish culture. Actors, singers, composers and dancers from Yiddish theater were among the Jews arriving, and these performer | | Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Libraries
The primary mission of the Judaica Sound Archives at FAU Libraries is to collect, preserve, and digitize Judaica sound recordings; to create educational programs highlighting the contents of this rich cultural legacy; and to encourage the use of this unique scholarly resource by students, scholars and the general public. | | Chaim Potok Is No Longer With Us, but His Lessons Remain
By Jane Eisner
On February 17, Chaim Potok, the novelist, scholar, painter and playwright whom I was privileged to call a dear friend, would have turned 80 years old. In the spring of 2002, he and I sat down for a series of interviews in the book-lined library of his home near Philadelphia. My Tuesdays with Chaim, we used to call these weekly sessions. | | Yiddish Theatre Placards: Buenos Aires and New York
The Dorot Jewish Division's Yiddish Theater Collection contains the materials assembled by many of the founders of the art form, from the notoriously flamboyant matinee idol and impresario Boris Thomashefsky to the comparatively sublime Bertha Kalich and the impossibly dignified Morris Morrison, as well as their young Harvard-educated aficionado, the bibliographer Edward Coleman. It is the principal repository for the unpublished manuscripts of these early Yiddish plays, for whose contents there | | The Jewish Music Institute Library at SOAS
The Jewish Music Institute Library is the first public library in Britain devoted to recordings, books, manuscripts, and scores of Jewish music. It covers a period from the middle-ages to the 21st Century and genres from folk and ethnic to liturgical and art music, including choral, cantorial, jazz, klezmer, Yiddish, Sephardi, Israeli and classical music. | | Music in the Third Reich:Bibliographies
Music has been essential to German culture and national identity for centuries. For the Nazis, music was seen not only as a source of national pride but also a tool that could be used to reshape German society to reflect the racial and cultural ideology of the Third Reich. Shortly after taking power in 1933 Nazi officials sought to “coordinate” German music by establishing the Reich Chamber of Music to supervise all musical activities in Germany and encourage music that upheld “Aryan” values. Or | | Paddy Chayefsky Papers (1907-1998 ) at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Primarily documenting the career of playwright and screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, this
collection consists of correspondence, material relating to production of his works, draft and
development material for unproduced works and other writings, office papers, vital records,
financial and legal records, photographs, and research material. | | Hugo Weisgall Papers (1922-1997 )
The Hugo Weisgall Papers document his professional life from his student days at the Curtis Institute in the 1930s to 1997. It contains scores, libretti, correspondence, subject files, biographical material, writings, financial records, concert posters and photographs. Though devoted almost exclusively to Weisgall’s professional activities, a self-contained group of personal letters between family members is located within the papers’ correspondence series and individual personal letters occasio | | The Clifford Odets Papers in The Lilly Library , Indiana University
The Odets collection contains approximately 30,000 items covering the years 1921-1963 and is both personal and business in nature. There is extensive correspondence with theatre and film personalities, literary and political figures, and family. Several of the diaries give detailed accounts of day-to-day events particularly those written during his time with the Group Theatre. Other items pertaining to the Group Theatre include scripts, photographs, playbills and stills. Scripts and production m | | UAlbany Appoints Joel Berkowitz as Director of the Center for Jewish Studies
By Catherine Herman
December 4, 2008) -- Associate Professor Joel Berkowitz at Alnany NT, an author and scholar in modern Judiac Studies, was appointed director of UAlbany's Center for Jewish Studies. Berkowitz joined the University at Albany faculty in 2001 and serves as chairman of the Judaic Studies Department. His research includes Jewish culture, history, film and Yiddish theatre | | Clifford Odets Papers 1926-1963 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The papers of Clifford Odets consist of scripts, notes, correspondence, journals, photographs, research materials, scrapbooks, and clippings that document his career as a playwright. The papers are divided into different aspects of his work in order for the researcher to appreciate the development of his plays and other writings. The papers provide an overview of Odets' artistic and technical writing process. | | Jewish Theater under Stalinism: Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET)
The collection of archival documents from the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) contains unique material on Jewish avant-garde art, Stalin’s repressions, and the history of Soviet culture and theater. This material, which is in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, English, French, and other European languages, allows us not only to further our knowledge of Yiddish theater and Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, but also to deepen and revise our understanding of the Kremlin’s policy toward | | The Shubert Archive NY
In 1976, The Shubert Archive began to organize the papers and business records of the Shubert brothers into a comprehensive archive. Under the direction of Brooks McNamara (Professor Emeritus, New York University) and former archivist Brigitte Kueppers, more than six million documents related to the Shuberts' theatrical activities were acquired and integrated into the Archive. The Shubert Archive collection - more than a century's worth of costume and set designs, scripts, music, publicity mater | | FAU Library Collection Now Considered a Center for Jewish Music
By Anna Karan
Written on the album cover of his 1951 recording of synagogue melodies, Cantor Zvee Aroni of Philadelphia wrote, "We are a musical nation and a nation recognized as a people that likes, and appreciates and gives out music." | | The Museum of the City of New York's Theater Collection
The Museum of the City of New York's Theater Collection traces the relationship between New York City and theater. It documents theatrical activity in the city from the late 18th century to the present day. | | American Jewish History Internet Resources
American Jewish Historical Society ( AJHS ) founded in 1892, the mission of the American Jewish Historical Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating to American Jewish history. | | Jewish Women in Comedy
By Joyce Antler
In featuring Jewish women comediennes, the Jewish Women's Archive puts the spotlight on a tradition that has been neglected for far too long. The significance of American Jewish women's comedy was brought home to me some years ago, when I dedicated my book on Jewish women's history, The Journey Home, to my two daughters, calling them badkhntes of the next generation. | | The Jewish Drama Collection at the St. Petersburg State Theatrical Library
By Nina Warnke
The St. Petersburg State Theatrical Library houses the surviving archives of
the Czarist censorship office, which includes all extant copies of plays
submitted to the censor in Russian, French, German, Yiddish, and other
languages. Although the collection of Yiddish censorship copies is one of the
smallest of the library92s collections, with its over 2,500 texts it
represents one of the largest repositories of Yiddish plays in the world | | Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater
da Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater, opened in May 2001 at the Center for Jewish History. Curated by YIVO Archivist Krysia Fisher, it chronicled the life and career of Ida Kaminska, daughter of the great Yiddish actress Esther-Rachel Kaminska, co-founder of the VIKT (Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater), and after World War II, the director of the Warsaw State Jewish State Theater. | | Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theatre
Edwin Booth, Sarah Bernhardt, Tennessee Williams, Gypsy Rose Lee, Truman Capote, and Edward Albee are among the Players Featured in Show Opening November 21 | | Brecht's Works in English: A Bibliography at University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
The Bibliography of Bertolt Brecht's Works in English Translation currently contains 2500 bibliobraphical entries. The cooperative project of the International Brecht Society and the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv (Akademie der Künste, Berlin) strives to become a comprehensive listing of Brecht's works published in English translation. It is aimed at scholars, teachers, theater practitioners, and the general public seeking access to the works of this major, twentieth-century writer or wishing to compare | | Resources in Yiddish Theatre : Books ,articles and online links
Yiddish theater constituted the primary form of entertainment for the three million Eastern European Jews who settled in America between the late 1800s and mid-1920s. Its roots can be traced to Romania, where in 1876 songwriter and poet Abraham Goldfaden launched the first troupe of professional Yiddish performers. Performing plays and operettas about biblical and historical events, these actors were products of the Jewish Enlightenment, or “Haskalah,” begun in Western Europe in the 18th century | | The Jewish National and University Library
Located in the Edmond J. Safra Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Jewish National and University Library serves as the National Library for the State of Israel, and of the Jewish people, as well as the main research-level library in humanities of the Hebrew University. Originally established in Jerusalem in 1892 it has since then amassed the world’s largest repository of Judaica resources – books, periodicals and newspapers, manuscripts and personal archives, music, maps, microfil | | Norman Fedder Papers
By Cindy Von Elling
In 1999, Dr. Norman Fedder retired as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre after 29 years at Kansas State University. During that time Dr. Fedder established an international reputation as a playwright, scholar, and teacher. Dr. Fedder's specializations include play writing, creative drama, drama therapy, religion and theatre, Jewish theatre, drama in Jewish education, American ethnic theatre, staging of original plays, and dramatic literature, as well as numerous teaching emphases. In 20 | | World of the piyut
The goal of the website is to provide the widest general picture possible of the world of the piyut throughout past generations and today. The website presents many sections relating to different views on the world of the piyut, and we plan to widen the scope over time.
The website centers around two archives: the main archive is a collection of piyutim and melodies, in which you can find the piyutim categorized into different sections, where you can run a general search. For each piyut there a | | A Benefactor for Yiddish Theater Treasures
By Daniel J. Wakin
Eli Broad, the Los Angeles financier and philanthropist, said on Tuesday that he had donated $186,000 to pay for cleaning, restoration, archiving and a permanent display. The cache includes programs, photographs, plays, costumes, music manuscripts, props and other material. The items were moldering in a dilapidated building at 31 East Seventh Street that housed the Hebrew Actors Union, now defunct. Champions of Yiddish theater had been trying to save the collection, and eventually placed it with | | The Gershwin Legacy : Library Celebrates Contributions of George and Ira
By Raymond A. White
On Sept. 26, 1898, one of America's most important composers was born. George Gershwin of Brooklyn, N.Y., alone and with his brother, Ira, wrote many of the finest American popular songs and orchestral pieces. The premiere institution for Gershwin studies is the Library of Congress Music Division, which this year celebrates the Gershwin legacy. In March, the Gershwin room opened in the Library's Jefferson Building, where it serves as a permanent exhibition area for materials relating to the brot | | October 1993 : International Conference on Jewish Theater in Poland
By Michael Steinlauf
An unprecedented scholarly event, the first international conference devoted to the history of Jewish theater, was held in
Poland on October 18-21, 1993. Twenty-seven papers were presented by scholars from Poland, the United States, Israel, Germany, Ukraine and Italy. The conference was organized by the Theater Department of the University of Lodz and the Polish Society of Theater Historians under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Culture, and was held at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz State T | | Jacque Offenbach Collection
By Jacobo Kaufmann
some 75 piano vocal scores and some 60 libretti in different languages, of the 95 originally printed and published stage works [operas, operettas, opéras comique, opéras bouffes,etc.] by Jacques Offenbach in his lifetime, plus some of his 90 songs and other vocal and instrumental music, about 35 manuscripts, and all of the music he composed for the Comédie Française. | | Yiddish Theatre Forum
By Joel Berkowitz
The Yiddish Theatre Forum (YTF) was founded in 2002 to foster greater interaction among scholars, artists, librarians, and lay people interested in the history of Yiddish theatre and drama. In addition to serving as a clearing house for queries about Yiddish theatre personnel, plays, and productions, the YTF publishes a variety of articles, reviews, and guides. So far these have included brief articles analyzing individual plays; guides to library and archival resources in the United States, Eur | | Yiddish Theater Collection at The New York Public Library
By Michael Terry
Both of the major movements in modern Jewish culture, the Hebrew and Yiddish language revivals, began to build serious momentum in the middle of the 19th century in Russia. The accelerating decline of the Russian Empire, however, soon made eastern Europe increasingly inhospitable to such creativity. From the end of the 19th century, therefore, and into the 1920s (which saw the full-fledged resurrection of Hebrew in British-Mandate Palestine as well as a short-lived Yiddish renaissance in Europe) | | Yiddish Drama ,Music and Sheet Music Collections at Brown University Library
This online exhibition is a small sample of the holdiings of Yiddish sheet music at Brown University Library. Currently, the public-domain sheet music is being digitized (2002) a searchable site is on display | | Klezmer , Yiddish Radio and American Popular Song
By Michael Stone
Henry Sapoznik is the author of The Compleat Klezmer and Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World (Scribner, 2000), winner of the 2000 ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship. He founded the seminal klezmer band Kapelye, and the Archives of Recorded Sound at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where he was its first director (1982-1994). Sapoznik is a Grammy-nominated producer-performer of historical and new recordings of Yiddish instrumental and vocal music, | | Album of the Yiddish Theatre by Zalmen Zylberzweig -Name index
The Album of the Yiddish Theatre contains 114 pages of photographs of notables associated with the Yiddish Theater, covering the period from the late 19th century to the mid-1930's. International in scope, the pictures show actors (many in costume), playwrights, composers, and producers, as well as officers of some of the organizations associated with the Yiddish stage. These include the Hebrew Actors Union, Jewish Chorus Union of America, Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, Yiddish Art Theater Company | | The Crossover Artists
Stars of Stage , Screen and Music who started out in Jewish enclaves, but went on to become icons of American Popular Entertainment Harold Arlen (1905-1986) The son of a cantor, he was celebrated for his ability to utilize African-American rhythms and blues ("Stormy Weather," "Blues in the Night"). Best known for his Academy Award-winning classic "Over the Rainbow," with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, he also wrote "The Man That Got Away" and "That Old Black Magic." For Broadway, he wrote "Get Happy," | | The Papers of Molly Picon (1898-1992)
This collection comprises the papers of the Yiddish actress and entertainer Molly Picon. The papers consist of extensive manuscripts of Yiddish and non-Yiddish plays, numerous radio and television scripts, programs and announcements for Picon’s performances, and personal material such as correspondence and photographs. Also included is a large amount of musical material such as songbooks, handwritten lyrics, and sheet music, much of it in Yiddish.
Quantity: 49 Linear Feet Identification: P-38 | | Where Have You Gone, Molly Picon?
By Robert Simonson
There are few traces left of the boisterous Yiddish theater that reigned along lower Second Avenue during the first half of the 20th century. Maurice Schwartz's vaunted Yiddish Art Theater, at the southwest corner of 12th Street, is now a multiplex. Across the street, a Japanese restaurant has taken the place of the Cafe Royal, a former mecca for Jewish intellectuals and artists. And the Second Avenue Deli, with its Molly Picon room and Yiddish Walk of Fame on the sidewalk outside, closed its do | | Energizing Jewish Musical Memory: Encounters with Sound and Text in Archives and Libraries
The Jewish Music Forum, a project of the American Society for Jewish Music at the Center for Jewish History is pleased to announce the following event: Energizing Jewish Musical Memory: Encounters with Sound and Text in Archives and Libraries Judith Pinnolis (Brandeis University) Respondents: Bret Werb (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) and Gina Genova (New York University / Milken Archive of American Jewish Music) Friday, March 31 10 A.M.
Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street Ne | | The Comprehensive Website on the History of the American Jewish Experience
The Center for Jewish History Launched on May 2005 the Most Comprehensive Website on the History of the American Jewish Experience Hundreds of beautifully digitized images of original documents, photographs, posters, books and artifacts bring the story of American Jewry of the past 350 years to life | | Yiddish Theatre an overview
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Eastern European Ashkenazaic Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily | | Ezra Lahad collection of Yiddish and Hebrew Theatre at Judaica and Hebraica Collections Stanford University Libraries
By Zachary M. Baker
Our library collection on the Yiddish and Hebrew theater consists of standard published works. That exception is the Ezra Lahad collection, acquired in 1998 by my predecessor Roger Kohn. Lahad lived in Haifa from the mid-1930s (when he came to the Yishuv as a teenager, together with his family) and he became a career naval officer in the IDF. He was a graduate of the Yiddish gymnasium in Vilna, and a passionate collector of books and ephemera on the Yiddish and (to a lesser extent) Hebrew theate | | CD project lifts curtain on forgotten music of Jewish America
The Milken family foundation has donated 750 million dollars to research, education, art and cultural projects in the last two decades. One of the beneficiaries of that money has been a project close to Milken's heart. Since 1990, the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, founded by his brother Lowell, has been collecting sound recordings and musical scores ranging from Yiddish songs to operas and symphonies. The recording label, Naxos, has published a large part of the collection on 50 CDs w | | Jews and the performing arts at Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library University of Pennsylvania
By Seth Jerchower
While we have a fair number of supportive research materials, our collections of primary source materials for Jews and the performing arts are essentially in two collections. A) Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive B) The Harvey Sheldon Collection,I would also suggest as adjuct to these collections, that of Penn's Otto E. Albrecht Music Library | | The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the U.S. Library of Congress
By Zachary M. Baker
vailable on line from the Library of Congress is a bibliography of the Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays. It includes a listing of the more than 1,200 scripts deposited at the U.S. Copyright Office during the period between 1909 and about 1950. Included are indices of Titles and Names, including names that were not the Primary authors. There is also a brief overview of the Yiddish Theater in America prepared by Edna Nahshon. | | Jewish Theater under Stalinism: Moscow State Jewish Theatre (GOSET)
In their time, the Moscow State Jewish Theater (GOSET) and the affiliated Moscow State Jewish Theater School (MGETU) were outstanding phenomena. GOSET was a pioneer enterprise that merged Yiddish art with Soviet ideology and avant-garde ideas. The character of the theater was determined by a galaxy of outstanding Jewish writers, actors, and artists of the 20th century, namely Marc Chagall, Aleksandr Falk, Peretz Markish, Solomon Mikhoels, and many others | | An often overlooked five-star gem in NYC
By Harold Ticktin
The Center for Jewish History (CJH), located in lower Manhattan at 15 W. 16th Street just off 5th Avenue, is a fascinating meld of five noted Jewish organizations who combined their resources in October 2000. The branches of its remarkable tree are Yeshiva University Museum, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO, Sephardi Federation, and Center for Jewish History. The CJH is perfect for those, like myself, with an eclectic interest in Jewish culture. | | The Fanny Brice Gallery
By Rex Strother
In researching Ben's career, I ran - so to speak - into the actress/singer/comedienne/radio star Fanny Brice. I knew the name of course, as many still do, but not much about Fanny herself. And her career came to fascinate me - starting with the Ziegfeld Follies in 1910, performing there for almost 20 years, recording for Victor, making films, and then - boom - a 15 year career in radio as the precocious "Baby Snooks." But, I noticed that her 1920-1930s recordings weren't easily available commerc | | Arnold Weskers Collection at the Ransom Center University of Texas
This addition to the papers of British playwright Arnold Wesker complements and expands the accessions already received at the Ransom Center. While it does not contain new works, the papers do provide some important drafts of existing plays, as well as additional material in virtually every subject category. So too, the date span includes a fifty year period from the onset of Wesker's professional career to the near present. | | Yiddish Theater collection at The Museum of the City of New York
The Theater Collection is recognized as one of the world's preeminent performing arts collections. It provides in-depth coverage of theatrical activity in the City from the late 18th century to the present day, including original set and costume renderings by designers such as Donald Oenslager, Jo Mielziner, and Robert Edmund Jones; posters and window cards that record trends in theatrical advertising; 17,000 folders documenting local productions since the 1800s; original playscripts annotated b | | Iraqi Jewish Culture Resources on the Web
By David Druce
Most Kurdish Jews have immigrated to Israel, and established a 'Kurdish-Israeli Friendship League' www.israel-kurd.org . A Kurdish feminist hero Rabbanit Osnat Barazani served as a community leader in the 17th century. To quote Shmuel Moreh and Joseph Sadan in Ha'Aretz, "Among the Babylonian rabbis whose hymns became part of the liturgy were R. Yosef Hayyim, who is also known in the area of religious law (his book 'Ben-Ish Hai' is also esteemed in Ashkenazi yeshivas). The rabbi's wife, known as | | Archive of Legendary Acting Teacher Stella Adler at Ransom Center -University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has acquired the complete archive of Stella Adler (1901-1992), founder of the famed Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting.
Adler is best known for having taught the principles of acting and character and script analysis to young talents who later came to dominate the American stage and screen. Among her students were Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Martin Sheen, Harvey Keitel, Melanie Griffith, Peter Bogdan | | A British Gateway to Jewish Music -The Jewish Music Institute Library , London
By Geraldine Auerbach
The Jewish Music Institute Library is the first public library in Britain devoted to recordings, books, manuscripts, and scores of Jewish music. It covers a period from the middle-ages to the 21st Century and genres from folk and ethnic to liturgical and art music, including choral, cantorial, jazz, klezmer, Yiddish, Sephardi, Israeli and classical music. | | Hidden play by Israeli poet Rachel Bluwstein (1890-1931)
By Dana Olmert
While poring over various materials at the Genazim archive at the Writers' House in Tel Aviv, I came across a very short play entitled "Mental Satisfaction." The play, which has never been published, was attributed to the poet Rachel (Bluwstein, 1890-1931). The archivists recommended that I try to find additional sources that would make it possible to confirm the attribution. The doubt as to the attribution arises because the copy that is in Genazim was typed on a typewriter, whereas Rachel's po | | The Sholom Secunda Papers at Fales Library and Special Collections New York
By Ben Torpey
The Sholom Secunda Papers are a part of the Archive and Manuscript Collection at the Fales Library, New York University. The bulk of the Sholom Secunda Collection is comprised of Music Manuscripts. These include manuscripts for Yiddish Theatre productions, Cantorial music, Liturgical music, Art Songs, Secular Songs and Folk Songs. Included with the collection are several sound recordings, in various media. These recordings include 78 RPMs, open reel tape, acetate transcription discs and cassette | | The Bernard H. and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center
By Zippi Rosenne
A computerized database of the photographic collections enables research of any subject and retrieval of information and image on the computer screen. The subject of Jewish Theatre is well represented in our Archives with photographs on the professional theatre and cinema, on amateur theatre - including school children performing plays - Purim Spiel, famous actors and directors, | | Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen at The Yiddish Radio Project
Sharing the stage with Mr. Sapoznik is the Yiddish Radio All-Star Band, featuring the last of the living klezmer legends who inspired the recent revival of the old-world musical form. Their repertoire ranges from traditional klezmer to the Yiddish-Swing style popular on Yiddish radio in the 1930s and 40s. A co-production of Sound Portraits Productions and Living Traditions, the Yiddish Radio Project is dedicated to rescuing every surviving recording from the golden age of Yiddish radio and to di | | 77 Yiddish Playscripts at The American Memory Library of Congress
The seventy-seven Yiddish plays in this collection range from ten page vignettes to four-act extravaganzas. They were written by celebrated writers such as Sholem Aleichem and Jacob Gordin (the first important "serious" Yiddish playwright), and popular wordsmiths such as Abraham Shaikewitz Schomer and Joseph Lateiner, whose reputations have been eclipsed by time. Some of the writers represented in this collection are unknown to us; | | Preserving the musical legacy of those silenced
By Mina Miller
Music of Remembrance is a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to remembering Holocaust musicians and their art through musical performances, educational activities, musical recordings, and commissions of new works.
Musicians in the Holocaust fought humiliation and dehumanization through their art. Clinging to a shred of life, they created remarkable works. The music of the Holocaust is powerful evidence of the capabilities of the human heart | | The Dearborn Independent newspaper :Jewish Control of the American Theater
Henry Ford was President of Dearborn Publishing, which published The Dearborn Independent. The publication is a very interesting one and remains surprisingly relevant today, which is due to the nature of the topics covered by the publication. Henry Ford had his own editorial that regularly ran in the publication and the publication also advertised his work, The International Jew. "Jewish Control of the American Theater " was the headline of 1 January 1921 issue. | | The Dance Library of Israel
This Library is the only one of its kind in Israel. It is located at Beit Ariela Municipal Library of Tel Aviv and serves the entire country. The Library collections cover all fields of dance and movement in Israel and the world. It was founded in 1975 by dancer, choreographer Anne Wilson Wangh. Valuable historic costumes, accessories, pictures, albums and documentations of some of the most famous dancers and dance personalities of the century, that have been donated to the library. | | Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville Research Group
The initial goals of the Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville Research Group
(hereafter YtandVRG) are to provide an electronic discussion group in the form of a JewishGen .Ytand V mailing list for those genealogists tracing relatives who were
involved in Yiddish theater and/or vaudeville in any capacity, in any
location, and in any time period ,record the combined expertise of genealogists working to trace relatives in this Jewish "micro world" through JewishGen YTandV
discussion group archives an | | Tel Aviv's Theater Museum Treasure - buried forever?
By David Rapp
Tel Aviv's Theater Museum was `temporarily' housed in an apartment, until a more dignified location could be found. Meanwhile, fine works of art, by the best artists of the period, are locked away
The document states that actor Shlomo Michoels traveled on a mission to Minsk at the beginning of January, 1948. It also notes that the mission ended on the 13th of that month, at which time he left the city. But he departed from the city in a coffin...The actor's daughters finally gave the document | | Joseph Chaikin, Papers 1935-2003
Actor, director, and theorist Jospeh Chaikin was born 16 September 1935 in Brooklyn, New York to emigre parents.Joseph Chaikin first donated his papers to the Department of Special Collections and Archives of Kent State University in 1972. . The highlights of the collection are items documenting Chaikin's life as an actor, founder of The Open Theatre, | | Feher Jewish Music Center of Beth Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv,
By Yuval Shaked
The center maintains a collection of some 7,000 recordings of Jewish music – traditional songs, tunes and prayers, and musical compositions – as well as a computerized data bank containing some 2,600 bilingual (Hebrew and English) entries on Jewish musicians and poets, and approximately 2,600 registrations of various texts set to music. | | London's most remarkable and least known theatrical traditions from 1880 until recent times!
By David Mazower.
Yiddish Theatre in London was created by and for the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled in the East End of London in the late 19th century. They crowded into the narrow streets of Whitechapel and Spitalfields, where they soon developed a rich Yiddish cultural life. This virtual exhibition aims to give a brief, but historical look at Yiddish Theatre in London. , | | CARTHALIA -Theatres on Postcards
By Andreas Praefcke
CARTHALIA shows my collection of old and new postcards of exterior and interior views of theatres of all times worldwide. you can already have a look at over 2900 postcards of over 1500 buildings in over 90 countries. | | Bohlman rescues music of rare Jewish cabarets
By Seth Sanders
Bohlman, Professor in Music and the College, is an ethnomusicologist who researches Jewish music, the musical cultures of Europe, America and the Middle East, and the musical dimensions of religion, nationalism and racism. Just last year he published World Music: A Very Short Introduction, which brings all of these elements together. | | Yiddish theatre collection at Dorot Jewish Division NYPL
By Michael Terry
The Dorot Jewish Division's Yiddish Theater Collection contains the materials assembled by many of the founders of the art form, from the notoriously flamboyant matinee idol and impresario Boris Thomashefsky to the comparatively sublime Bertha Kalich and the impossibly dignified Morris Morrison, as well as their young Harvard-educated aficionado, the bibliographer Edward Coleman. It is the principal repository for the unpublished manuscripts of these early Yiddish plays, for whose contents there | | Zalman Zylbercweig's Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre
By Faith Jones
The six published volumes of editor Zalman Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater [Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater] appeared over a period of almost forty years (1931-1969) and in three countries. Dozens of volunteers collected the information and wrote the entries, which reflect not only the personalities and histories of the individuals listed but also the various styles and idiosyncrasies of the contributing writers. | | Bohlman rescues music of rare Jewish cabarets
By Seth Sanders
Not only can Philip Bohlman discuss the Jewish cabaret music that was rescued from oblivion by the Austrian Censor's office--he and his colleagues also can perform it, rescuing it once again. Bohlman, Professor in Music and the College, is an ethnomusicologist who researches Jewish music, the musical cultures of Europe, America and the Middle East, and the musical dimensions of religion, nationalism and racism. Just last year he published World Music: A Very Short Introduction, | | Issachar Fater's Lexicon: Jewish Musicians in Poland between the Two World Wars
By Ada Holtzman
Nowadays all the world knows about one musician, which appears in the lexicon many years before he became a legend in a film, and this is of course Wladislaw Szpilman, "the Pianist", in the well known film of Roman Polanski.
I am pleased to announce a new web page, finished in time just before the New Year 5764. It is a virtual page of commemoration of Jewish Musicians in Poland between the Two World Wars and in the Holocaust | | The Phonoarchive of Jewish Folklore at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine
By Lyudmila Sholochova
One of the largest collections in the world of phonographic recordings of Jewish musical folklore is housed in the Manuscript Institute of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. A significant, well-preserved collection (more than 1000 waxen phonocylinders), including additional materials in the form of musical and textual decodings to phonorecordings - all foster a vibrant development of the archival collection. | | Beyond Recall ... A record of Jewish musical life in Nazi Berlin, 1933 - 1938
This is an introduction to a vast research on Jewish Theatre and Performing Arts in Germany from the late 19th century till WW2 conducted by Yael Goldman , assistent Reserch Coordinator -All About Jewish Theatre . any further information is welcomed. please contact:
Yael Goldman e-mail :csi1@barak.net.il or Moti Sandak e-mail : ncmisrael@bezeqint.net | | | The Tel Aviv University Archive of Israeli Music | | The Judah Magnes Museum
Among the collections are a large number of 78 recordings. The Museum asks researchers to phone first and make an appointment at 510-549-6939. | | The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music
A Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the Italy | | From Kiev to Jerusalem
By Moti Sandak
The collection includes works written as part of the activities of the St. Petersburg School of Music, a group of Jewish researchers and composers at the beginning of the twentieth century, who were occupied by anthropology and folklore of the Jewish communities. The composers, who were inspired by folk melodies collected from sung sources, arranged the songs.
The spiritual guide of the group was the writer An-ski, who, inspired by the collection, created 'The Dybbuk'. | |
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