1937 Palestine YIDDISH POSTER Actor MAURICE SCHWARTZ Judaica JEWISH ART THEATRE


1937 Palestine YIDDISH POSTER Actor MAURICE SCHWARTZ Judaica JEWISH ART THEATRE

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1937 Palestine YIDDISH POSTER Actor MAURICE SCHWARTZ Judaica JEWISH ART THEATRE :
$245.00


DESCRIPTION: Up for sale isan EXTREMELY RARE gem. It\'s an advertising YIDDISH THEATRE poster , Published and issued in Eretz Israel ( Then also refered to as Palestine ) in 1937 ( Fully and clearly dated ) , Announcing the forthcoming of the acclaimed Jewish Russian American YIDDISH THEATRE ACTOR - MAURICE SCHWARTZ , The founder and director of the great \"THE JEWISH ART THEATRE\" in New York USA , To perform what is defined as \" A CONCERT of CHARACTERS and VISIONS - A PROGRAM of SELECTED CHARACTERS From His COUNTLESS SUCCESS ROLES of HIS ARTISTIC CAREER \" to take place at the \"ZION\" auditorium in JERUSALEM. The exciting POSTER is written in a most ARCHAIC Hebrew, Typical to the 1930\'s . The giant poster size is around27x 39 \" . Hebrewand English . Printed on plain paper. Very good condition . Clean. Folded twice. (Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images )Will be sent inside aprotective rigidsealed tube.

PAYMENTS: Payment method accepted : Paypal .SHIPPMENT:SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $17 .Will be sent inside aprotective rigidsealed tube . Will be sent within3-5days after payment .Kindly note that duration of Int\'l registered airmail is around 14 days.

bloody Laughter (Hinkemann).[7] (It had been produced in the UK in a cockney English version, and in Yiddish entitled The Red Laugh. Schwartz commissioned a translation for the New York production.)[12] Related to German expressionism and the First World War, the play was not well received.[12] Schwartz later traveled to the new nation of Israel and performed on stage there.In 1931, the Yiddish theater was declining as ethnic Jews became more assimilated and audiences decreased. In an interview, Schwartz said, \"The Jewish stage was once a night school to which people came to learn the language [English]. Now Jewish playwrights are confused. They cannot go back to the old themes because the Americanized Jew does not know that life, and they have not sufficiently assimilated the life here to understand and write about it.\"[7]In the same interview, Schwartz said, \"The theatre is my life. It is the only interest I have.\"[7]FilmWith his successes as an actor, Schwartz was also drawn to Hollywood, appearing in his first silent film in 1910. He appeared in more than twenty films between 1910 and 1953; the majority were silents.[13] He also wrote, produced or directed several films.[13]Among his major roles in motion pictures were in Broken Hearts (1926), Uncle Moses (1932), Tevye (1939), Mission to Moscow (1943), and as Ezra in the Biblical drama Salome (1953).DeathHe died in Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel near Tel Aviv. He is buried in the Yiddish-theatre section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City. Maurice Schwartz was not only one of the world\'s foremost Yiddish actors, he was also the founder and leader of the Yiddish Art Theatre of New York. Under his leadership, the talented theater troupe performed in many high quality Yiddish productions, always striving to maintain Schwartz\'s high artistic standards. Maurice Schwartz was not only one of the world\'s foremost Yiddish actors, he was also the founder and leader of the Yiddish Art Theatre of New York. Under his leadership, the talented theater troupe performed in many high quality Yiddish productions, always striving to maintain Schwartz\'s high artistic standards. Maurice Schwartz was born in the town of Sedikov (Zhidachov), Ukraine on June 18, 1890. He immigrated to the United States in 1902. A renowned Yiddish actor and director, Schwartz began his life in the Yiddish theatre by performing with a number of Yiddish theatrical troupes. Even at this early stage in his career, he had the desire to introduce Yiddish versions of popular European plays to the American audience, many of whom were immigrants like himself. Though he did not succeed in this venture, Schwartz in 1918 formed \"The Yiddish Art Theatre\" in which he produced and performed in many Yiddish plays for more than three decades. The Theatre was located in New York City, though the troupe, over the years, would move their theatre to different locations within the New York metropolitan area. Over more than a thirty year period, Schwartz and his acting troupe performed nearly two-hundred works in Yiddish to audiences in New York City alone. Maurice Schwartz has left his mark on the Yiddish theatre, and those who read about him will discover much about the man, both personally and professionally. The Museum of Family History also makes available to you here the only biography written about Schwartz, \"Once a Kingdom: The Life of Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theatre, \" written by the late Martin Boris. The Museum\'s Yiddish Art Theatre is dedicated to Maurice Schwartz and all the wonderful Yiddish actors and actresses and behind-the-scenes personnel that were ever part of a Yiddish language production. At the YAT, you will see photographs of some of his productions as well as some of the many who were part of the Yiddish Art Theatre--not only the acting troupe, but those behind the scenes as well. 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 high quality exemplifies the artistry that occurred in 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 who are interested in theatre, even if your interest doesn\'t lie in Yiddish theatre, you will still enjoy perusing the more than twenty pages found within this exhibition. You can not only read about Maurice Schwartz the man (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, not only the plays, but also those who worked behind the scenes as well as 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. You will also find listings of more than one hundred of his productions, including a full cast listing of dozens of them. Though some of the material found within this exhibition has previously been presented by this online Museum, there is much new to be seen. Born in Ukraine, Maurice Schwartz moved to the United States in 1902. After working with several Yiddish theatre troupes, Schwartz hoped to take Broadway by storm with a repertoire of Yiddish-language versions of European plays. Though this venture failed, Schwartz went on to fame and prestige when, in 1926, he founded the Yiddish Art Theatre on New York\'s 2nd Avenue. Also in 1926, he starred in and directed his first film, Broken Hearts. Schwartz\' major contribution to the American theatrical world was his promotion and perpetuation of the works of Jewish playwright/essayist Sholom Alecheim. In 1939, Schwartz directed and starred in a film adaptation of Alecheim\'s Tevye the Milkman, which served as the basis for the much-later Broadway musical hit Fiddler on the Roof. Schwartz made his first appearance in a \"mainstream\" Hollywood film, Mission to Moscow, in 1943. His best-known Hollywood role was as Ezra in Columbia\'s expensive 1953 Biblical drama Salome. When Columbia decided to utilize leftover Salome sets, costumes and background footage for the 1953 programmer Slaves of Babylon, Schwartz reprised his \"Ezra\" characterization as Nebuchadnezzer. In 1959, with the Yiddish theatrical tradition in decline in the U.S., Maurice Schwartz journeyed to Israel, hoping to establish a theatre there; after mounting one single production, Schwartz died at the age of 70.


1937 Palestine YIDDISH POSTER Actor MAURICE SCHWARTZ Judaica JEWISH ART THEATRE :
$245.00

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