Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw). Records.

Title: Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw)

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)

Biographical/Historical

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.

Creators

Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw)

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Actors
CULTURE_
Jewish Actors Union
Labor unions
Poland - Warsaw
Theater
THEATER_
Unions
Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw)

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Administrative Information

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Other Note

Inventory: Yiddish, 45 pp., typed

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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