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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS: --Postcards from Home:
--Lodz, Poland: The Galas family portraits.
--World Holocaust Memorials:
--Canada: New photographs from
landsmanshaftn plots at Baron De Hirsch Cemetery in
Montreal.
The new societies/European towns that are now represented are:
--Koluszki and Brzeziny, Poland
--United Hebrew Cemeteries
--Adath Israel Congregation
--Ozarow, Poland
--Yishitza
THE YIDDISH WORLD:
--Maurice Schwartz and his Yiddish Art Theatre: For
more than sixty years Yiddish acting great Maurice Schwartz has
directed and performed in more than one hundred plays both
domestically and abroad. His dedication to performing plays of the
highest quality exemplifies the artistry that occurred within the
Yiddish Theatre in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth
century. The Yiddish Theatre, in all its glory, was at its zenith on
the Lower East Side of New York City, especially in the area on or
about Second Avenue.
For those of you whose interest lies in Yiddish theatre, you will
enjoy perusing the more than twenty pages found within this
exhibition. You can not only read about Maurice Schwartz the man (a
link to an unpublished biography of Schwartz can be found within
this exhibition), but also the actor. You can also see photographs
of many of his productions and learn a bit about many of the Yiddish
Art Theatre productions themselves, i.e. not only the plays his
troupe performed, but also those who worked behind the scenes as
well and the playwrights themselves. You will also learn a bit about
Schwartz's acting troupe itself and the myriad of talented actors
and actresses that once graced the Yiddish stage.
For those of you who do research about the Yiddish theatre, you will
find not only a listing of most all his YAT productions, but also a
page that lists in greater detail more than one hundred of his
productions. This is
especially interesting because of information these listings
contain, e.g. full cast listing of the majority of those productions
listed. You willtypically find the title of the production, the
playwright's name, the location and name of the theatre in which the
YAT performed this production at, and the month and year the
production opened. I am still missing information on many of these
listings as well as complete information on other YAT productions,
so if anyone has information that isn't available on this webpage,
please contact me.
Though some of the material found within this exhibition has
previously been presented by this online Museum, there is much new
to be seen. To see this exhibition, please visit
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yat.htm. The
aforementioned page listing the more than one hundred YAT
productions with casts of characters can be found at
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yat-D.htm. You can also find a
listing with links to most of the Yiddish Theatre
material at the Museum of Family History's Yiddish World at
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mfh-backstage-main.htm .
Lastly, for those of you who wish to hear and read in Yiddish (and
English) some poetry written by Itzik Manger and Peretz Miransky,
please visit the Museum's Yiddish Vinkl Poetry Corner at
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yiddish-vinkl-poetry-01.htm .
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