Ninth Year -- 1918-1926 -- Season 1926-7
SOUVENIR BOOK
Published on the occasion of the
OPENING OF A NEW HOME
the Yiddish Art Theatre
 

Maurice Schwartz and the actors of his Yiddish Art Theatre, in its more than thirty years of existence, performed in more than one hundred and eighty different plays. Always striving to choose a high-quality production, Schwartz's troupes acted in plays written by such Jewish playwrights as Sholom Aleichem, Abraham Goldfaden, Sholem Asch, Peretz Hirshbein, Jacob Gordin and David Pinski, as well as non-Jewish writers such as Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, Molière and George Bernard Shaw.

Here you will find various photographs that represent scenes from their various productions, which were staged in the first nine years of the Yiddish Art Theatre's existence:
 

 DI KISHUF MAKHERIN
(The Witch)
by Abraham Goldfaden

Scene with Maurice Schwartz, Anna Teitelbaum, Berta Gerstin, Ben Zvi Baratoff,
and members of the Art-Ring. Sets by Maud and Kotler. Premiere: March 11, 1925.
 

OYF'N OPGRUND
(NA DNIE)
(The Lower Depths)
by Maxim Gorky

Ensemble photo. Premiere: December 25, 1919.
 

DER DYBUK
(The Dybbuk)
by Sholem An-ski

Scene from the third act of "Dybbuk."
Premiere: 1921.

VELF
(Wolves)
by Romain Rolland

Pinchas Sherman, Abraham Teitelbaum, Maurice Schwartz and Ben Zvi Baratoff.
Premiere: December 30, 1924.

DI TSVEY KOONEYLEMELS
(The Two Kuni Lemels)
by Abraham Goldfaden

Scene with Leah Meltzer, Julius Adler and Wolf Goldfaden.
Premiere: January 25, 1924.

 

ANATEMA
(Anathema)
by Leonid Andreyev

Still from "Anathema," which starred Maurice Schwartz, Anna Appel, Bina Abramowitz, Lucy German,
Berta Gerstin, Jechiel Goldschmidt, Irving Honigman, Ben Zion Katz, Hyman Meisel, Bessie Mogulesco, Gershon Rubin,
Mark Schweid, Jacob Sobel, Joseph Rosenberg, Zvi Scooler, Muni Weisenfreund, et al.
Premiere: circa February 28, 1923.
 

DOS GROISE GEVINS
(The Big Winner)
by Sholem Aleichem

From right to left: Anna Appel, Berta Gerstin, Muni Weisenfreund, Maurice Schwartz, and Misha German.
Premiere: December 8, 1922.
 

DER KRAYD-TSIRKL
(The Chalk Circle)
by Klabund

Scene of trial in the last act.
Premiere: December 24, 1925.
 

SHVER TSU ZAYN A YID
(Hard to Be a Jew)
by Sholem Aleichem

Scene from the end of the first act.
Misha German is standing on the far right, Berta Gerstin, seated, far left.
Premiere: October 1, 1920.