[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--Maurice Schwartz and his Yiddish Art Theatre

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

Sept. 3, 2010-09-03

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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:48:10 -0400
From: steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com
Subject: Maurice Schwartz and his Yiddish Art Theatre

For more than sixty years Yiddish acting great Maurice Schwartz has 
directed and performed in more than one hundred plays both domestically 
and abroad. His dedication to performing plays of the highest quality
exemplifies the artistry that occurred within the Yiddish Theatre in the 
nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. The Yiddish Theatre, 
in all its glory, was at its zenith on the Lower East Side of New York 
City, especially in the area on or about Second Avenue.

For those of you whose interest lies in Yiddish theatre, you will enjoy 
perusing the more than twenty pages found within this exhibition. You can 
not only read about Maurice Schwartz the man (a link to an unpublished 
biography of Schwartz can be found within this exhibition), but also the 
actor. You can also see photographs of many of his productions and learn a 
bit about many of the Yiddish Art Theatre productions themselves, i.e. not 
only the plays his troupe performed, but also those who worked behind the 
scenes as well and the playwrights themselves. You will also learn a bit 
about Schwartz's acting troupe itself and the myriad of talented actors 
and actresses that once graced the Yiddish stage.

For those of you who do research about the Yiddish theatre, you will find 
not only a listing of most all his YAT productions, but also a page that 
lists in greater detil more than one hundred of his productions. This is 
especially interesting because of information these listings contain, e.g. 
full cast listing of the majority of those productions listed. You will 
typically find the title of the production, the playwright's name, the 
location and name of the theatre in which the YAT performed this 
production at, and the month and year the production opened. I am still 
missing information on many of these listings as well as complete 
information on other YAT productions, so if anyone has information that 
isn't available on this webpage, please contact me.

Though some of the material found within this exhibition has previously 
been presented by this online Museum, there is much new to be seen. To see 
this exhibition, please visit www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yat.htm. The 
aforementioned page listing the more than one hundred YAT productions with 
casts of characters can be found at 
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yat-D.htm.
You can also find a listing with links to most of the Yiddish Theatre 
material at the Museum of Family History's Yiddish World at 
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/mfh-backstage-main.htm.

Lastly, for those of you who wish to hear and read in Yiddish (and 
English) some poetry written by Itzik Manger and Peretz Miransky, please 
visit the Museum's Yiddish Vinkl Poetry Corner a 
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yiddish-vinkl-poetry-01.htm.

Enjoy!

Regards,
Steven Lasky
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com
steve at museumoffamilyhistory.com
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