Digital Yiddish Thtr

The Digital Yiddish Theatre Project is a research collective dedicated to applying Digital Humanities methods to the study of Yiddish Theatre

[GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative @GlobalLitin]

@YiddishBookCtr @SUPress @JewYid @yivoinstitute @cjewishhistory @katzcenterupenn @JewishStudiesUK @H__Ukraine @PenUkraine @yermolenko_v @Read_WIT @womensmediacntr @IWMF @JessicaKirzane @JewishLanguages @JewishBoston @SGollance @hchesner @YiddishNiyes @vivi_lachs @WSUPress @YiddishStories @Thrownpeas @SebSchulman @Yiddishclasses @TheYiddishVoice Sholem Asch Underworld Trilogy: God of Vengeance, Motke Thief, The Dead Man, by Sholem Asch, tr. Caraid O’Brien.

Prostitutes, criminals, & the walking dead—not the first images that come to mind when you think of the #Yiddishtheater.

https://t.co/aeWYDAnsBG

#YiddishLitMonth 🧵

[Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen]

It's finally here! The conference theme for #Farbindungen24 is Shtumer Alef: Beginnings/Silences/Partnerships. Proposals for papers and workshops are due by November 19, 2023. We are so excited to hear all of your wonderful ideas!
Read more at: https://t.co/dJtF3VwbR4

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Evgeniia Levitas and Solomon Mikhoels (center) at GOSET troupe’s picnic in Abkhazia, 1931, MSYT_00036, BAF.
📷 Review of the performance of Di kishefmakherin in Die Literarische Welt by Walter Benjamin, Berlin, April 27, 1928, MSYT_00356, BAF.

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

“For a historian of #Yiddishtheatre, these archival collections have a real and almost mythic power.”
Vassili Schedrin discusses the #archives across the world that contain GOSET’s (The Moscow State #Yiddish Theatre) collections: https://t.co/5Awl1HpJoY

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Iustina Minkova and Solomon Mikhoels as Eti-Meni and Shimele Soroker in the GOSET production of 200,000, Moscow, 1923, MSYT_00076, BAF.
📷 Iustina Minkova and Solomon Zil’berblat, 1970s. Courtesy of Alex Russakovsky.

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

“For a historian of #Yiddishtheatre, these archival collections have a real and almost mythic power.”
Vassili Schedrin discusses the #archives across the world that contain GOSET’s (The Moscow State #Yiddish Theatre) collections: https://t.co/5Awl1HpJoY

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Kol Nidre illustration. Image by David bar Pesah.
📷 Shelomoh ha-melekh [Shloyme ha-meylekh].
Bertha Kalich (pictured) later starred with David Kessler in the play Kol Nidre, by A. Sharkansky, at the Thalia Theatre in New York in 1898.
All courtesy of @nypl #yiddishtheatre

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

“I will never forget this #YomKippur Eve in Bucharest. It was a difficult day that tortured my body & tormented my soul�� That evening & the following morning I had to sing in the synagogue &… send a prayer for my brothers… to plead for another year of life.” #yiddishactress

[NYPLDorotJWSDivision @NYPL_DorotJWS]

Read "'A day that tortured my body and tormented my soul': Bertha Kalich’s Kol Nidre in Bucharest", from NYPL's microfilms of the New York Yiddish daily, Der Tog @yiddishstage . https://t.co/sqkNx5z7Do

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Head shot of Bertha Kalich looking downwards. Billy Rose Theatre Collection, @NYPL_DorotJWS
📷 Bertha Kalich dressed in an ornate white dress and a large, white feathered hat. Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library. #yiddishtheater #yiddish

[NYPLDorotJWSDivision @NYPL_DorotJWS]

Read "'A day that tortured my body and tormented my soul': Bertha Kalich’s Kol Nidre in Bucharest", from NYPL's microfilms of the New York Yiddish daily, Der Tog @yiddishstage . https://t.co/sqkNx5z7Do

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt Sings a Synagogue Service. Recorded by RCA.
📷 Sheet music cover Eli-Eli with Belle Baker (Kammen publications, 1937). Photo source: Dan Wyman Books.
📷 Music hall scene with Yossele Rosenblatt, The Jazz Singer. Warner Bros., 1927.

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

“The Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services in the large #Yiddish playhouses (…) featured star cantors who were accompanied by the theatre’s orchestra and chorus.”

Read more in “Something Special for the High Holidays”
https://t.co/NZVu2O2YsW

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 Playbill of the Thalia Theater with the matinee and evening program for Rosh Hashanah September 1898, including Sharkansky's opera Kol Nidre. @nypl Digital Collections: https://t.co/gPvd7hm6zk @NYPL_DorotJWS #highholidays #RoshHashanah #yomkippur #yiddish

[Sonia Gollance, PhD @SGollance]

Had fun exploring the German Drama Corpus on the DraCor website, a digital humanities resource that explores the dramatic repertoires of various European languages (from Alsatian to Ukrainian — still need to go to @yiddishstage for Yiddish). https://t.co/pBQ9eUHq3I

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 1875 cartoon from Ghimpele, an anti-semitic Romanian newspaper.
📷 Bertha Kalich, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library. @NYPL_DorotJWS @nypl #yiddishtheatre

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

Read about the famed Prima Donna Bertha Kalich’s successful debut in the Romanian National Theatre-in which she became the first Jew of any gender or nationality to perform there-in spite of the culture of #antisemitism.
https://t.co/NWIwzLIGXr #yiddishactress #yiddish

[Digital Yiddish Thtr @yiddishstage]

📷 A glass negative of Bertha Kalich from the George Grantham Bain Collection in the US @librarycongress Identification provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards, caption unverified. Circa 1898-1910 #yiddishtheater

[shulman @shvlman]

Illustration by Edgar Walter for a Dybbuk performance starring Miriam Goldin and Nahum Zemach, 1920s
https://t.co/ji1nWRlEVR

[Sonia Gollance, PhD @SGollance]

Thrilled to receive my copy of “Women on the Yiddish Stage” (ed. @alyssa_quint and @amkseigel), with my article on Judith Berg, choreographer of the film The Dybbuk. In this article, I reconstruct her career in 1930s Warsaw. @yiddishstage @NYPL_DorotJWS @uclhjs @yivoinstitute

[shulman @shvlman]

Bella Bellarina in 'Tog un Nakht' at the Unzer Theatre in 1924
https://t.co/bxs6N1V7Tq