Theater, Yiddish

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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.

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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.

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...

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...

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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.