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


Yiddish Art Theatre
Troupe of "Three Cities"
appeared in The Forward
on October 9, 1938

 

Front row, from right to left: Ben-Zion Schoenfeld, Celia Lipzin, Zachariah Berger, Joseph Schwartzberg, Berta De Costa, Ben-Zion Katz, Arthur Winters, Clara Deutschman.

Seated in the second row, from right to left: Lazar Freed, Anna Appel, Genia Schlitt, Berta Gerstin, Jacob Ben-Ami, Maurice Schwartz (director of the Yiddish Art Theatre), Sholem Asch (author of "Three Cities"), Samuel Goldinburg, Ben-Zvi Baratov, Luba Kadison, Liza Silbert, Izidor Casher.

Third row, from right to left: Solomon Krause, Wolf Goldfaden, Julius Adler, Abraham Teitelbaum, Bertha Hart, Esther Neroslavska, Aaron Sternberg, Manya Schlossberg, Sholom Secunda (composer), Janet Brandt, Michael Goldstein, Reuben Wendorf, Moshe Strassberg, Zvi Scooler.

Fourth row, from right to left: Fela Biro, Lea Wendorf, Sonia Radina, Isaac Gladstone, Sidney Schlesser, Norman Gevirtzman, Elizabeth Brev, David Popper, Sonia Gursky, Misha Boodkin, Zina Goldstein, Albert Klar, Arthur Spolter, H. Peretz.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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