Yidisher Artistn Fareyn

Title: Yidisher Artistn Fareyn

Inclusive Dates: 1919-1939

ID: RG 26

Extent Information

16'3"; 39 5"lgl

Arrangement

Organization: Boxes 1-35 are arranged; boxes 36-39 are unarranged

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 6 series: I) Organizing Committee (Folder # 1); II) Bylaws (2); III) Conferences & Meetings of the Executive Council (3-22); IV) Executive Board (23-398); V) Printed Materials (399-400); VI) Files of Actors, Singers, Composers, Dancers and Directors (401-999)

Creators

Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw)

Administrative/Biographical History

Jewish Actors' Union. Founded in 1919 as a professional association to protect and promote the interests and welfare of Yiddish actors. Aid to members included financial subsidies and loans, medical and legal assistance and school and summer camp scholarships. The Union also concerned itself with the development of high artistic standards for the Yiddish theater and took a stand against the popular "shund" theater of the period. In addition, it actively participated in theatrical productions and tried to establish a cooperative network of Yiddish theater companies. The union affiliated itself with the labor movement and maintained contacts with TSYSHO (Central Yiddish School Organization), with the Yiddish Writers and Journalists Union and with Jewish newspapers. The union was in existence until the outbreak of World War II.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Argentina
China
Community Records
England
France
Great Britain
Latvia
Musicians
Poland
Summer Camps
Theater
Unions
United States
Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw)

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Finding Aid Information

Inventory: Yiddish, 45 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Description: Minutes of the Organizing Committee. By-laws. Convention materials, 1921-1932: reports, minutes, list of delgates. Reports of the Executive Board, 1922-1933. Editorial files of the publications *Teater yedies* and *Teater byuletin*. Correspondence with the committee to publish the *Leksikon fun yidishn teater* (Lexicon of the Yiddish Theater) edited by Zalmen Zylbercweig. Arbitration court for disputes among members. Plan to construct a building for the union's headquarters. Statistics about working and unemployed actors. Correspondence of the Executive Board. General correspondence. Correspondence with government agencies, with the Federation of Writers and Composers of the Polish Stage "ZAIKS", with the International Federation of Theatrical Employees. Correspondence with theater ensembles in Argentina, U.S., France, Latvia and England. Correspondence with local groups in Warsaw, Vilna, Lublin, Lwow, Cracow, Lodz. About 600 individual files on actors, singers, composers, directors, including Misha Alexandrovitch, Paul Baratov, Diana Blumenfeld, Moses Broderson, Shaine Miriam Broderson, Mendl Elkin, Dina Halpern, Rachel Holzer, Ida Kaminska, Esther Rachel Kaminska, Abraham Morewski, Lidia Potocka, Ajzyk Samberg, Maurice Schwartz, Zygmunt Turkow, Jonas Turkow, Michael Weichert, Rudolf Zaslavsky.

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