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Theater, Yiddish

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Advertisement for the Grand Opening of the Jewish Theatre, 1923 September

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Identifier: B063.02.0002.00016
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Advertisement for the grand opening of the Yiddish theater at the Palm Theatre, 3116 W. Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado that appeared in the Denver Jewish News. The opening night performance was The Price of Love on September 12, 1923. The Jewish Theatre was established by the Jewish Theatrical Company, organized by the Josephson family. The Jewish Theatrical Company operated from 1922 to 1926.

Dates: 1923 September

Advertisement for the Palm Theatre, 1923 December

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Identifier: B063.02.0002.00017
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Advertisement for the Yiddish theater at the Palm Theatre that appeared in the Denver Jewish News. The theater was located at 3116 West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The main drama was ''The Second Wife'' on December 25, 1923. The Jewish Theatre was established by the Jewish Theatrical Company, organized by the Josephson family. The Jewish Theatrical Company operated from 1922 to 1926.

Dates: 1923 December

Box 11 - Traveling Theater Program and S.O.A.R. Program, 1967 - 2023

 File — Box B094.04.0011: Series B094.04; Series B094.06; Series B094.07 [Barcode: U186023306093]
Identifier: B094.06.0011
Abstract Box contains ten file folders (FF) from this series. This includes FF3: materials from the Colorado section's 2021 S.O.A.R. program, which is an acronym for strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results; FF4: scripts and papers from the traveling theater's "Strawberry Tarts Forever" play, ranging from 1980-2003; FF5: scripts and papers from the traveling theater's "Wizard of Oz" play, ranging from 1987-2007; FF6: papers from an undated "Auntie Mame" performance; FF7: undated scripts and...
Dates: 1967 - 2023

Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium, 1929 August 4

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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00002.00023
Abstract Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a traveling theater company's performance at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in August 1929. Caption misidentifies director Maurice Schwarz's New York company, the Yiddish Art Theatre, as the [by-then defunct] Jewish Art Theatre. JCRS Sanatorium superintendent Herman Schwatt, M.D. is shown in the upper row, second from left. The newpaper clipping is from the Jewish Daily Forward, and was found in a scrapbook created by singer and actor...
Dates: 1929 August 4

May Arno Schwatt Theater Company, 1914

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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00001.00036.00001
Abstract May Arno Schwatt and her traveling theater company. May Arno Schatt was the sister-in-law of Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder and executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Schwatt and her theater company performed at the JCRS. She was born in Pitava, Russia to Saul and Chaya Shamus Charsky. Her mother died when she was young and she immigrated to America with a sister in the early 1880s to join her father and older sister Jennie Charsky at the Rosenheym Jewish...
Dates: 1914

The East European Newcomers, Panel 2, 2001

 Item — Object B297.02.01.00033: Series B297.02 [Barcode: U186023292244]
Identifier: B297.02.01.00033
Abstract

One of 12 exhibit display panels from the exhibit "Blazing the Trail: Denver's Jewish Pioneers." Panel titled "The East European Newcomers" includes Joseph and Nettie Goldfain, Gorden Family, Yiddish Theater, Kortz family, Ellis and BEssie Ruttman Wedgle, Robert Lazar Miller, and the Avrech Family.

Dates: Other: 2001