Also visit the Museum of Family History.

 

BECOME A FACEBOOK MEMBER 

 

   Visit                  Exhibitions                    Collections                  Research                  Learning                  About                  Site Map                  Contact Us                  Support


 

 

They Graced Our Stages: The Yiddish Theatre Troupes
(1910 to 1957)

◊


National Theatre
cast of "Chaver Nachman" (East of Eden)
appeared in The Forward
on September 24, 1939

 

Jacob Ben-Ami's New Art troupe, in I.J. Singer's "Chaver Nachman"

From right to left, sitting: Leah Naomi, Tillie Rabinowitz, Charlotte Goldstein, I.J. Singer (author), Ludwig Satz, Jacob Ben-Ami (director of the troupe), Jacob Mestel, Celia Adler, Joseph Schoengold, Bertha Hart and Zina Goldstein.

Behind those standing (from right): Pauline Hoffman, Liza Waron, Goldie Lubritsky, Jacob Rechtzeit, Jacob Wexler, Joseph Rumshinsky (composer), Irving Honigman, Samuel Lev (set painter); Anatol Winogradoff, Lazar Freed, Judel Dubinsky, Reuben Wendorf, Misha Boodkin, Louis Hyman and Isidore Lash.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

List courtesy of YIVO (Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research).

Copyright © Museum of the Yiddish Theatre. All rights reserved.