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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:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Theater/Drama
Photograph of many people sitting in rows.
The Egyptian Molière and What He Endures
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Hanin, ‘Abd al-Khaliq, Ilyas, Butrus, and those [actors] previously mentioned.Hanin:Good morning, Mitri! Bonjour, Istifan!Mitri:What morning? It’s noon already, you wino!‘Abd al-Khaliq:And who…

Contributor:

Ya‘qub Sannu‘

Places:

Beirut, Ottoman Empire (Beirut, Lebanon)

Date:

1912

Subjects:

Performing arts, Social justice, Activism, Economic life, Arabs

Categories:

Literature, Theater/Drama, Performing Arts