[Mendele] MENDELE Personal Notices and Announcements--"Great Artists Series, " an internet museum

[Victor Bers]

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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