The Portraits 

Meet more than three hundred of our wonderfully talented former Yiddish actors, actresses, composers and playwrights! The Museum of the Yiddish Theatre brings you face to face with the portraits of a great number of those who once contributed to the existence and evolution of the Yiddish stage. Learn about them. Educate yourself. Browse the many photographs, read about their lives, listen to stories that have been told about them. Visit the museum's Portrait Gallery for as long and as often as you like. Simply explore!

We, at the Museum of the Yiddish Theatre, realize that in order to honor and preserve the history of the Yiddish theatre, one needs to conduct one's own research into its many facets, to immerse oneself in the stories and personalities of its former stars.

The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, the mutual aid society for Yiddish actors and actresses, have provided the Museum with a plethora of photographs from its large archives, many of which were taken by professional studio photographers, and we are bringing them to you here for your enjoyment and education. The Museum also wishes to thank the Museum of the City of New York, which has kindly allowed the use of many of its images under its Terms of Use.

Please contact us at the Museum if you have any questions or concerns.
 

Our Collection

Bina Abramowitz     Boris Thomashefsky     Miriam Kressyn     Michal Michalesko     Celia Adler     Maurice Schwartz     Rosetta Biales     Max Badin     Jennie Goldstein     Irving Grossman     Judith Abarbanel     Pesach'ke Burstein     Lillian Lux     Jacob Rechtzeit     Regina Prager     Sidney Hart     Fraydele Oysher     Max Lasky     Mae Simon     Max Perlman       Ola Shlifko     Jechiel Goldsmith     Pauline Hoffman     Jean Greenfield     Sally Josephson     Morris Honig       Kadie Kaplan     Samuel Rosenstein     Dora Weissman     Itzhak Arco     Isidore Hollander     Lucy Finkel     Isaac Arco     Frances Weintraub     Izidor Casher     Frieda Ziebel     Jacob Zanger     Ann Winters     M.B. Samuylow     Vera Lubov     Julius Adler     Reizl Bozyk     Mark Schweid     Mollie Cohn     Sam Blum     Rose Elving     Wolf Goldfaden     Yetta Block     Elihu Tenenholtz     Frances Sincoff     Chaim Tauber     Mildred Soffe     Isidore Lillian     Clara Rafalo     Morris Strassberg     Beatrice Kurzman (Bas Sheva)     Leonid Snegoff     Miriam Riselle     Jacob Mestel     Bertha Leltchuk       Sheftel Zak     Sam Gertler     Arnold Perlmutter     Sam Lowenfeld     Philip Maltz     Solomon Smulewitz     H. Leivick     Benny Adler		Jacob P. Adler     Bessie Thomashefsky     Seymour Rechtzeit     Anna Levine     Harry Miller     Bettie Jacobs     Boris Auerbach     Lucy German     Ben Bonus     Diana Goldberg     Lazar Freed     Goldie Lubritsky     Leo Fuchs     Leah Naomi     Samuel Goldenberg     Bertha Hart     Moishe Oysher     Esta Salzman     Menasha Oppenheim     Nellie Casman       William Schwartz     Lucy Levin     Menachem Rubin     Rebecca Richman     Leon Haras     Shirley Gross     Abe Hart     Betty Budanov     Louis Birnbaum   Sadie Schoengold     Samuel Tobias     Anna Hollander     Louis  Bockshitzky     Anna Toback     Itzik Feld     Rebecca Weintraub     Morris Moshkovitch     Yetta Zwerling     Charles Nathanson     Ray Schneyer       Leon Seidenberg     Betty Frank     Misha Fiszon     Bella Bellarina     Harry Blum     Esta Dubrow     Bernard Elving     Mina Gurewitz     Edmund Zayenda     Lyda Slava     Benzion Schoenfeld     Annie Thomashefsky     Harry Kaufman     Pepi Littman     Reuben Weissman     Henrietta Jacobson     Isidore Vernick     Belle Baker     Samuel S. Schneier     Ella Ziebel       David Yanover     Chayele Rosenthal     Elie Mintz     William Ziegenlaub     Hyman Meisel     Max Rosenblatt     Alexander Olshanetsky     Louis Gilrod     Nahum Meir Shaykevitsh		Frances Adler     Leon Blank     Mae Schoenfeld     Sigmund Mogulesko     Lily Liliana     Jacob Jacobs     Celia Boodkin     Misha German     Mina Bern     Charles Cohan     Charlotte Goldstein     William Epstein     Bella Mysell     Louis Kremer     Anna Lillian     Yudel Dubinsky     Thelma Mintz     Dave Lubritsky     Betty Simonoff     Julius Nathanson       Anna Teitelbaum     David Popper     Stella Schulman     Gershon Rubin     Betty Koenig     Sam Josephson     Zelda Kaplan     Maurice Krohner     Minnie Birnbaum     Max Rosenthal     Liza Varon     Peter Graf     Florence Weiss   Fyvush Finkel     Saltsche Schorr     Isidore Giltman     Regina Zuckerberg     Leon Gold     Lola Shpilman     Isidore Meltzer       Jeannette Paskewich     Max Bozyk     Jennie Casher     Gustav Berger     Vitee Dubrow     Henry Ginzburg     Sonia Gurskaya     Sigmund Weintraub     Paula Lubelska     Joseph Rumshinsky     Mathilda St. Clair     Aaron Soffe     Tania Poland     Yasha Rosenthal     Rosa Karp     Israel Welichansky     Manya Schlossberg     Moony Weisenfreund (Paul Muni)     Bracha Skulnik     Max Wilner       Ella Wallerstein     Abraham Teitelbaum     Jacob Rotbaum     Ilya Trilling     Leiser Zelazo     Rudolph Marks     Jacob Gordin     Sholem Asch     William Siegel		Aaron Lebedeff     Keni Lipzin     Irving Jacobson     Luba Kadison     Leon Liebgold     Molly Picon     Misha Boodkin     Sara Gingold     Herschel Bernardi     Muriel Gruber     Jacob Cone     Fannie Lubritsky     Herman Yablokoff     Dinah Halpern     Nathan Goldberg     Berta Gutentag     Solomon Krause     Sylvia Fishman     Pinchus Lawanda     Rose Greenfield       Menasha Skulnik     Tillie Rabinowitz     Herman Serotsky     Celia Person     Morris Silberkasten     Paula Klida     Jacob Kalich     Sarah Krohner     Jacob Ben-Ami     Nettie Tobias     Marty Baratz     Rose Wallerstein     David Levenson     Mary Wilensky     Max Gabel     Anna Zeeman     Gustav Schacht     Malvina Lobel     Jacob Wexler     Bessie Weissman       Lazar Zuckerman     Miriam Feder     Ben-Zvi Baratoff     Rosetta Conn     Berl Bernardi     Sylvia Feder     Willy Godick     Fannie Reinhardt     Morris Koenig     Jennie Valiere     Jacob Sussanoff     Anna Manne     Mordecai Yachson     Florence Zeitlin     Benzion Witler     Fania Rubina     Sol Wallerstein     Malvina Rappel     Maurice Morrison     Clara Langsner       Simon Wolf     Harry Jordan     Sholem Perlmutter     Leib Lensky     Hymie Rappoport     Mark Arnstein     Abraham Ellstein		Bertha Kalich     David Kessler     Anna Appel     Joseph Buloff     Helen Beda     Hymie Jacobson     Miriam Elias     Ludwig Satz     Zena Goldstein     Isidore Elgard     Berta Gerstin     Sam Kasten     Nadia Neroslavska     Abe Lax     Rose Goldberg     Max Kletter     Vera Rosanka     Louis Weiss   Henrietta Schnitzer     Berl Bernstein       Annie Hoffman     Michael Rosenberg     Stella Adler     Muni Serebroff     Liza Silbert     David Opatoshu     Zelda Gould     Samuel Iszkowitz     Pepy Lavitz     Joseph Kessler     Goldie Eisman     Anshel Schorr     Clara Young   Abe Zweig     Goldie Shapiro   Kalman Juvelier   Clara Honigman   Bennie Zeidman   Sabina Lakser   Elias Rothstein       Fela Biro     Joseph Schoengold     Nadia Dranova     Rudolph Schildkraut     Clara Gold     Max Henig     Gertrude Stein     Yasha Kreitzberg     Rose Silbert     Solomon Manne     Rosetta Yaeger     Leon Schachter     Shifra Lerer     Leonard Whiteman     Esther Rachel Kaminska     Zvi Scooler     Sarah Skulnik     Anatol Winogradoff     Annie Meltzer     Isaac Swerdlow       Chaim Schneour     Cantor Leibele Waldman     David Medoff     Peretz Sandler     Isidor Solotorefsky     Sholom Secunda