[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements--"Great Artists Series, " an internet museum
Victor Bers
victor.bers at yale.edu
Fri Jul 11 15:47:41 EDT 2008
MENDELE Yiddish Language and Literature
Personal Notices and Announcements
July 11, 2008
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:00:59 -0400
From: Steven Lasky <steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com>
To: mendele at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Yiddish acting great Maurice Schwartz et al
Greetings,
I have just placed online within the walls of my virtual, internet-only
museum the next exhibition that falls under the title of "Great Artists
Series." This exhibition about Yiddish acting great Maurice Schwartz and
his Yiddish Art Theatre is the fourth of five such exhibitions to be
presented within this category. Others featured within this series include
Bialystok-born artist Max Weber, Yiddish playwright David Pinski, and the
great American (Lithuanian-born) entertainer Al Jolson. The Jolson
exhibition is a rather large one, containing twenty-seven web pages,
featuring more than one dozen video clips and nearly four dozen sound
clips, including Jolson songs, Fanny Brice singing "My Man," Jolson and
Groucho Marx, George Jessel and more. You may wish to visit the page "The
Jewish Side of Jolson" and hear him sing "Cantor on the Sabbath" in
Yiddish, as well as Hatikvah and Kol Nidre. The last planned exhibition in
the Great Artists Series that will be published online within the next
month or so will be about American tenor and chazzan Richard Tucker.
The Schwartz exhibition contains a serialized version of the only known
biography of Maurice Schwartz, a fairly complete listing of all of the
Yiddish Art Theatre productions (title of work, author, years played),
photos of scenes from various productions, many of the actors who played
with troupe, as well as those who worked behind the scenes. I will be
adding audio clips to this exhibition in the future featuring comments
about Schwartz, from such greats as Luba Kadison, Seymour Rexsite et al.
Your comments are most welcome, as are your suggestions for future
exhibitions.
The URL for the Great Artists Series is
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/gas-main.htm . The URL for the Schwartz
exhibition is
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mschwartz.htm . The Jolson exhibition can be
found at www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/ajolson.htm .
Best,
Steven Lasky
New York
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com
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