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Includes photographs taken by Roger Sturtevant of the Temple Players' (of San Francisco's Congregation Emmanu-el) 1928 production of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. Many photographs are portraits of the play's lead actress Carolyn Anspacher. Also includes later portraits of Anspacher

Collection consists primarily of 20th-century programs, playbills, and handbills in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew, from around the world; productions primarily from New York and Israel

This collection begins with a collection of essays, clippings and a book on the history of Yiddish theatre then segues to folders with music scores, programs, advertisements, correspondence, press releases, and photographs from various seasons of Yiddish theatrical groups in the United States. Of particular note is a rather large collection of correspondence and ephemera from the Florida State University Theatre Department's 1975 centenial celebration of Yiddish theatre

A term paper regarding the history of Rose Theatre (Yiddish theater) later known as the Regal Theatre in Milwaukee, Wis

Correspondence, mss. of writings, notes, newspaper clippings, and other items, relating to Chaim Nachman Bialik, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, Jewish education, and the Yiddish theater in New York City; together with materials of a Jewish writers project concerning rituals and procedures at New York City synagogues

David Abrahams was born on April 28, 1884 in Tiraspol, Ukraine. In 1907 he came to the United States, where he became active in several Yiddish theater groups, such as Artef and the Theater Lovers League (see Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidishn teater, vol. 1 column 49). In the 1930s he worked as an insurance agent for the New York Life Insurance Company. In 1936 he was Vice-President of the Boycott Committee of the American Jewish Congress

Three scrapbooks containing handbills, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, and other memorabilia, the bulk of which relate to the Yiddish theater in Cleveland and Neshkin's involvement with it

Romantic comedy in Yiddish. They play is set in either Meseritz, Germany (Miedzyrzecz, Poland) or Ravitch (Rawicz, Poland). Both the setting and language used in the play reflect the lives of Jews in small towns in the Posen (Poznan) region in the 1830s. The plot concerns a young man named Nahum, 18 years old, who is in love with Slatka. Nahums's parents are opposed to the match. Zalmen, the matchmaker, hatches a plot to insure that the wedding will take place. He will get Nahum drunk, and while Nahum is in bed, Nahum will pretend to be sick. Zalmen will call a doctor. The doctor (actually Zalmen disguised as a doctor) says that Nahum may become crazy unless a miracle worker exorcises the dybbuk. Zalmen again appears, this time disguised as a miracle worker, and says that "tenaim" must be written. Nahum's parents are reconciled to the match. The plot is thickened by rumors that Slatka has borne a child out of wedlock, and that there is another woman in love with Nahum, Hanah, who also ...

The collection is of mixed provenance and consists of two parts. The bulk of the collection relates to the Vilna Ghetto during Nazi occupation and was generated there. The second part, which consists of historical and literary manuscripts, had belonged to the YIVO Institute of Vilna before the war. *Vilna Ghetto* Materials on the Vilna ghetto reflect daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and relations with Nazi officials. Maps of the ghetto, 1942. Diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski. Personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes. Materials on the ghetto administration and its divisions: health, social relief, distribution and supply, statistics, ghetto police, ghetto court, cultural affairs, labor, education. Materials on various cultural groups. Issues of ...

Correspondence with brothers David and Lippa and other family members, 1907-1964. Correspondence with individuals including Ephraim Auerbach, Menahem Boraisha, Joshua Fishman, Jacob Glatstein, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, Abraham Golomb, Oscar Handlin, David Ignatoff, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Mordechai Kaplan, H. Leivick, Shmuel Niger, Melech Ravitch, A.A. Roback, Jacob Shatzky, Israel Steinbaum, Salomon Suskovich, Abraham Sutzkever, Yokhanan Twersky, Max Weinreich, Aaron Zeitlin. Correspondence with organizations, including the YIVO Institute. Materials relating to YIVO-Yad Vashem Documentary Projects. Manuscripts of poetry, drama, fiction, essays. Translations, speeches and lectures. Miscellaneous pedagogical materials. Materials relating to Camp Boiberik. Research materials such as questionnaires, statistics, correspondence and reports on various topics including reactions to the Eichmann trial. Personal materials. Clippings of articles by and about Lehrer