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The First Habima Theater Audience
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The audience at the first formal performance by the Habima theater troupe in 1918. This set of short plays, Neshef bereshit (A Festival of Our Beginning), was performed in the Moscow Art Theatre under…

Contributor:

Photographer Unknown

Places:

Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Performing arts, Jewish identity, Modernity, Activism

Categories:

Photography, Theater/Drama
Photograph of many people sitting in rows.
The Past and the Future of Yiddish Theater
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The Jewish intelligentsia, the Jewish art patrons showed no sign of attention to Yiddish theater. A sickly weakling, it was born in southern Russia forty years ago, and has remained anemic and weak to…

Contributor:

Mark Rivesman

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1918–1919

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Jewish languages, Yiddish, Performing arts, Writing

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama