Detailed Description

Guide to the Records of the Yidisher Artistn Farayn (Yiddish Actors' Union), 1908-1940, RG 26

Arranged by Solomon Krystal, 1984. Translated and edited by Rivka Schiller in 2006 with the assistance of a grant from the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation. Additional processing by Sarah Ponichtera in 2013 as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Electronic finding aid was converted to EAD by Sarah Ponichtera in March 2013. EAD customized in Archon in 2013. Description is in English.

Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Records of the Yidisher Artistn Farayn (Yiddish Actors' Union), 1908-1940, RG 26

ID: RG 26

Extent: 16.25 Linear Feet

Arrangement: The series are arranged by type of material, namely administrative materials, correspondence, or membership files.

Languages: Yiddish, Polish, German, Russian, Hebrew, English

Abstract

The Yidisher Artistn Farayn, or Yiddish Actors’ Union, advocated for actors’ economic interests while striving to create a professionally run, artistically ambitious, Yiddish theatrical scene in Warsaw. From 1919-1938, its influence gradually increased until it included the majority of actors working in Poland, and collaborated with the most significant Polish Yiddish cultural figures and institutions, including E. R. Kaminska, YIVO, Literarishe Bleter, and the Landrat, or National Council of Class Trade Unions (Krajowa Rada Klasowych Związków Zawodowych). This collection contains records of annual conventions, Executive Committee meetings, correspondence with actors and theaters from Poland and around the world, and membership files on almost 600 actors.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection contains administrative materials detailing institutional functions and decision-making processes, correspondence, and membership files, each separated into its own series.

Series I, Administrative Records, contains very early notes on the initial formation of the YAF, as well as the bylaws of the union (both the original handwritten version and a sample of the subsequent print versions, in Yiddish and Polish). Series I also contains records of the annual conventions. There are particularly complete records of conventions 3-15 (1921-1932). Series I contains the minutes of the meetings of the Executive Committee, from 1922-1933, and records of the communal court. There are few financial records, although there are records of the YAF’s drive to collect funds to build a new theater building.

Series II, Correspondence, is divided into subseries that reflect the YAF’s own filing system. Correspondence is separated according to the location of the correspondent, which correlates with the primary subject matter of each group of correspondence. Executive Committee correspondence, dealing with administrative and charitable matters, forms Subseries 1. Subseries 2 consists of correspondence with international theatrical organizations, either groups that toured Poland, or groups that Polish actors worked for abroad. Subseries 3 contains correspondence with theatrical groups in Poland, organized by the name of each Polish city where the group was located. Correspondence with Polish government organizations as well as non-governmental organizations falls into Subseries 4. Subseries 5 contains correspondence with permanently established theaters in Poland, organized by the name of the theater. Subseries 6 consists of correspondence with touring acting troupes, organized by the name of their correspondent. This filing system represents the way that the YAF established intellectual control over their activities, which attempted to encompass all theatrical work in Poland.

Series III contains the YAF’s membership files, arranged by member’s name. Many of these files contain membership booklets that include a picture, and the person’s basic biographical information. If the member took the exam held by the YAF in order to qualify for membership, records of the exam are included in their file. Some files also contain correspondence between the member and the YAF, often pertaining to questions or problems they encountered in their dealings with the organization.

Series IV consists of unarranged YAF materials. These materials, though they were originally produced by the YAF, like the rest of the collection, do not possess the same inherent order, and seem to have been assembled over a period of time from a variety of sources. Some of the correspondence is addressed to Zalman Reyzen, and the materials on performances and actors relate to those located in Vilna more than other cities, so YIVO may have had a hand in collecting these materials at some point during the prewar period. Special permission to work with these materials must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

Historical Note

The Yidisher Artistn Farayn (Yiddish Actors’ Union), also known as the Zwiazek Artystow Scen Zydowskich (ZASZ), located in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 1919, and existed until the beginning of WWII (September 1939). Its primary purpose was to represent the interests of actors in their financial negotiations with directors of theaters and theatrical troupes. However, its role went beyond that, as it involved itself in politics, supporting greater autonomy for Polish Jews, and in cultural life, as it attempted to support the development of a professional, artistically ambitious Polish Jewish theater. In fact these goals were connected: demonstrating the advancement of Jewish culture was thought to buttress Jewish claims for greater political freedom.

Several attempts were made to establish an actors’ union in the 1910s in different cities in Poland, beginning in 1915 in Lodz. The German occupation of Poland during and after WWI provided Polish Jews, and the Yiddish theater in particular, with unprecedented freedom. Whereas under the Russia Czar, permits to perform Yiddish plays were rarely granted and frequently revoked, the German occupation authorities, eager to undermine Russification, allowed ethnic minorities including Jews to freely participate in cultural life. Following WWI, it took some years for refugees who had fled to return to Warsaw, but when a critical mass of actors and activists was reached, in 1919, the Yidisher Artistn Farayn (henceforth referred to as YAF) took shape.

In the early years of its existence, the YAF struggled to exert influence over the energetic but chaotic blossoming of the Yiddish theatrical scene in Poland. New theatrical companies would be established and then disappear, and rifts emerged particularly between actors affiliated with permanent theaters and those that toured the provinces, sometimes only for a single season. They also ironically struggled with the greater freedoms allowed Yiddish theaters and actors: if they called a strike, there was no reason directors could not simply hire actors unaffiliated with the union, and many did exactly that, limiting the YAF’s ability to create meaningful change.

In 1925, the YAF affiliated itself with the Landrat , or the National Council of Class Trade Unions ( Krajowa Rada Klasowych Związków Zawodowych ). This unified them with unions in other professions, broadening their ability to enforce internal discipline and amplifying their voice on the Polish political stage.

The YAF conducted extensive activities aside from bargaining with directors and political activism. As part of its general financial support of retired, ill, and unemployed actors, it provided a stipend to actors who wished to send their children to school. In 1925, they decided to limit this stipend to those who sent their children to Yiddish-language schools, thus buttressing Yiddish education in Poland. They also published their own journals ( Yidish teater and Yidishe bine , among others) and amassed one of the most impressive libraries among the Warsaw trade unions. They held lectures on the history of Yiddish theater, and became involved in education, training young actors and providing certification for experienced actors. Its membership grew to include over 300 (324 in 1938), and accounted for the vast majority of Yiddish actors in Poland at the outbreak of WWII.

References

Mordechai V. Bernstein, “Di organizatsye fun di yidishe artistn,” in Yidisher teater in Eyrope tsvishn beyde velt-milkhomes , vol. 1, Poyln, ed. Itsik Manger, Yonas Turkov (Jonas Turkow), and Moyshe Perenson, pp. 339–436 (New York, 1968)

Marek Web, “Organizacja i samopomoc: Z historii ruchu zawodowego aktorów żydowskich w Polsce,” Pamiętnik Teatralny 41.1–4 [161–164] (1992): 135–174, special issue on Yiddish theater in Poland until 1939.

Web, Marek. "Yiddish Actors Union." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe 8 November 2010. 22 March 2013 http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Yiddish_Actors_Union.

Subject/Index Terms

Actors Labor unions, Actors Poland Biography, Documents - Correspondence, Documents - Membership cards, Documents - Minutes (Administrative Records), Documents - Resolutions (Administrative Records), Poland - Warsaw, Theater, Yiddish, Yidisher artistn-fareyn in Poyln

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

Use Restrictions:

Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Method: These records were among the Jewish collection looted by the Einsatzstab Rosenberg in Vilna under the Nazis and brought to Germany in 1942. Placed after the war in the U.S. military Offenbach Archival Depot, these documents were returned to the YIVO in New York in 1947.

Related Materials:

Additional materials from the Yidisher Artistn Farayn can be found in the Central State Archives (Vilnius). The YAF gave their records to YIVO in 1935; however materials continued to be created as well as found over the following years, and these records found their way into the Lithuanian Central State Archives. Photocopies of these materials can be found at YIVO; the originals are located in Vilnius.

There were significant contacts between the Yidisher Artistn Farayn and the Hebrew Actors' Union (RG 1843), which was based in New York. Although there was no formal assocation between the two organizations, many individuals participated in both, and the organizations were aware of one another, alternately supporting one another in their aims and coming into conflict.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Records of the Yidisher Artistn Farayn; RG 26; box number; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

Series I: Administrative Records, 1919-1940,
Series II: Correspondence, 1913-1938,
Series III: Membership Records, 1910-1939,
Series IV: Unprocessed Materials, 1908-1938,
All

Series II: Correspondence, 1913-1938

This series contains the correspondence of the Yidisher Artistn Farayn, both correspondence between members of the Executive Committee, and between the Executive Committee and the acting troupes that were members of the YAF. There is also a small amount of correspondence with state authorities, and correspondence with actors' unions operating in different countries.

Arrangement: The arrangement of this series reflects the original order used by the Yidisher Artistn Farayn. They separated their correspondence based on the type of theatrical group they were corresponding with: domestic, international, touring, or permanant (i.e., associated with a particular theater). Each group has its own internal arrangement. There is also a small amount of correspondance that does not fall into any of these categories, and that correspondence is arranged in a subseries titled General Correspondence.

Subseries 1: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1923-1938

This subseries contains announcements from the YAF, inventories of theater props and costumes, actor certification forms, invitations, union cafe coupons, YAF membership cards, lists of unemployed YAF members, and materials pertaining to the Leksikon fun yidishn teater committee. It also contains personal and official correspondence and telegrams - many of them from banks, publishing houses, theater companieis and societies, Jewish cultural and welfare organizations (such as TOZ, Tarbut, Kultur lige, the League for Jewish Youth in Warsaw, Society of Friends of YIVO, Society for the Children's Sanatorium), and newspaper clippings.

Arrangement: Materials are arranged chronologically.

Box 4

Folder 51: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1923-1924: General business
Folder 52: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1923-1924: Charity (help with medical, legal, and social matters)
Folder 53: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1925: General business
Folder 54: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1925: Charitable matters
Folder 55: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1926: General business
Folder 56: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1926: Charitable matters
Folder 57: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1927: General business
Folder 58: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1927: Charitable matters

Box 4A

Folder 59: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Aug 1927: General business
Folder 60: Executive Committee Correspondence, Sept-Dec 1928: General business
Folder 61: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1928: Charitable matters

Box 5

Folder 62: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Mar 1929: General business
Folder 63: Executive Committee Correspondence, Apr-June 1929: General business
Folder 64: Executive Committee Correspondence, July-Sept 1929: General business
Folder 65: Executive Committee Correspondence, Oct-Dec 1929: General business
Folder 66: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1929: Charitable matters

Box 6

Folder 67: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Sept 1930: General business
Folder 68: Executive Committee Correspondence, Oct-Dec 1930: General business
Folder 69: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1930: Charitable matters
Folder 70: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1931: General business
Folder 71: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1931: Charitable matters
Folder 72: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-July 1932: General business
Folder 73: Executive Committee Correspondence, Aug-Dec 1932: General business
Folder 74: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1932: Charitable matters

Box 6A

Folder 75: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Mar 1933: General business
Folder 76: Executive Committee Correspondence, Apr-June 1933: General business

Box 7

Folder 77: Executive Committee Correspondence, July-Sept 1933: General business
Folder 78: Executive Committee Correspondence, Oct-Dec 1933: General business
Folder 79: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1933: Charitable matters
Folder 80: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Mar 1934: General business
Folder 81: Executive Committee Correspondence, Apr-June 1934: General business
Folder 82: Executive Committee Correspondence, July-Sept 1934: General business
Folder 83: Executive Committee Correspondence, Oct-Dec 1934: General business
Folder 84: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1934: Charitable matters

Box 8

Folder 85: Executive Committee Correspondence, Jan-Mar 1935: General business
Folder 86: Executive Committee Correspondence, Apr-June 1935: General business
Folder 87: Executive Committee Correspondence, July-Dec 1935: General business
Folder 88: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1935: Charitable matters
Folder 89: Executive Committee Correspondence, 1936-1938

Subseries 2: Correspondence with International Theatrical Organizations, 1913-1938

This subseries includes correspondence with the Sociedad de Actores Israelitas and Teatro Excelsior in Buenos Aires, the Breitman-Teffner theater company in Johannesburg, the Palestine Theatre Ltd. and the Jewish Actors Union in Israel, the Hebrew Actors' Union in New York, YAF's Vienna-based branch, the "Yidisher teater gezelshaft in Letland," and the Express and Vikt theaters in Romania, the "Nayer yidisher teater" in Riga as well as the "Riger yidisher meutim teater." It also contains newspaper and journal excerpts and satirical materials regarding YAF strikes and strikebreakers.

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by location of correspondent, listed alphabetically according to the Yiddish alphabet.

Box 8

Folder 90: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1927-1930: South Africa
Folder 91: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1926-1934: Argentina
Folder 92: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1924-1935: Austria
Folder 93: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1932-1935: Belgium
Folder 93A: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1927-1928: Brazil
Folder 94: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1931-1935: Canada
Folder 94A: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1933: China
Folder 95: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1932: Czechoslovakia
Folder 96: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Danzig
Folder 97: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929-1934: Denmark
Folder 98: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1925-1938: France
Folder 99: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1926-1933: Germany
Folder 100: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1913-1932: Great Britain
Folder 101: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, undated: Greece
Folder 102: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929: Hungary
Folder 103: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1932-1935: Italy

Box 9

Folder 104: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1925-1927: Latvia
Folder 104.1: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1928: Latvia
Folder 104.2: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929: Latvia
Folder 104.3: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1930-1935: Latvia
Folder 105: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1933-1935: Lithuania
Folder 106: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929: Mexico
Folder 107: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1927-1958: Israel / Palestine
Folder 108: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1923-1928: Romania
Folder 108.1: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Romania
Folder 109: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Switzerland
Folder 110: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1924-1929: USA
Folder 110.1: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1930-1931: USA
Folder 110.2: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1932-1935: USA
Folder 111: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1927-1934: USSR
Folder 112: Correspondence with International Theatrical Groups, 1932: Yugoslavia

Subseries 3: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Organizations, 1924-1935

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by city of correspondent, listed alphabetically according to the Yiddish alphabet.

Box 10

Folder 113: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1932: Baranowicze
Folder 114: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1934: Belchatow
Folder 115: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Berezno
Folder 116: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1933: Bedzin
Folder 117: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Biala Podlaska
Folder 118: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1933: Bialystok
Folder 119: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Bielsk
Folder 120: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927: Bilgoraj
Folder 121: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Brzesc
Folder 122: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Bydgoszcz
Folder 123: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Chelm
Folder 124: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1928-1934: Chrzanow
Folder 125: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931-1933: Ciechocinek
Folder 126: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1935: Czestochowa
Folder 127: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1929: Dzortkow
Folder 128: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1927+: Dobrzyn
Folder 129: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931-1932: Domaczewo
Folder 130: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1928: Drohobycz
Folder 131: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Dubno
Folder 132: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1934: Falenica
Folder 133: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932-1934: Gorlice
Folder 134: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1927: Gostynin
Folder 135: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1934: Grodno
Folder 136: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Grodzisk
Folder 137: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1932: Grojec
Folder 138: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1935: Horochow
Folder 139: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Horodenko
Folder 140: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927: Horodyszcze
Folder 141: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Dabrowa Gornicza
Folder 142: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Huta Krolewska
Folder 143: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925: Jadow
Folder 144: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Jaroslaw
Folder 145: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Jezierzany
Folder 146: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Jeziorany
Folder 147: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1935: Kalisz
Folder 148: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Kaluszyn
Folder 149: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Katowice
Folder 150: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1935: Kielce
Folder 151: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1932: Kobryn
Folder 152: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Kolo
Folder 153: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1933: Kolomyja
Folder 154: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Konskie
Folder 155: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930-1933: Kostopol
Folder 156: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1930: Kosow
Folder 157: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1930: Kowel
Folder 158: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1924-1934: Krakow
Folder 159: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930-1933: Krzemieniec
Folder 160: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1935: Kutno
Folder 161: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Lida
Folder 162: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Limanowa
Folder 163: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1923-1927: Lublin
Folder 164: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1928-1933: Lublin

Box 11

Folder 165: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Luboml
Folder 166: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1924-1928: Lwow
Folder 167: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Lwow
Folder 168: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1932: Lomza
Folder 169: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1929: Lowicz
Folder 170: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1933: Lodz
Folder 171: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1934-1935: Lodz
Folder 172: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Luck
Folder 173: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Lukow
Folder 174: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1934: Miedzyrzec k/ Lukov (Yiddish transliteation: Mezritch)
Folder 175: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Miedzyrzec Wot (Yiddish transliteration: Miedzhizhetsch)
Folder 176: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Minsk Mazowiecki
Folder 177: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Mlawa
Folder 178: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Nowogrod
Folder 179: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Nowy-Sacz
Folder 180: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932-1933: Nowy-Targ
Folder 181: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Olkusz
Folder 182: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1931: Ostrog
Folder 183: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1928: Ostroleka
Folder 184: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931-1935: Ostrowiec
Folder 185: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1928: Owsiecim
Folder 186: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Oszmiana
Folder 187: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1932: Otwock
Folder 188: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Pinsk
Folder 189: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1935: Piotrkow
Folder 190: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1934: Plock
Folder 191: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1933: Plonsk
Folder 192: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Przemysl
Folder 193: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Pultusk
Folder 194: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1933: Radom
Folder 195: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Radomsko
Folder 196: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Radziwillow
Folder 197: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Rawa-Ruska
Folder 198: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Rozyszcze
Folder 199: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1935: Rowne
Folder 200: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927: Rzeszow
Folder 201: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930-1934: Sambor
Folder 202: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1935: Sandomierz
Folder 203: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Sanok
Folder 204: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1933: Sarny
Folder 205: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1934: Siedlce
Folder 206: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Skala
Folder 207: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1933: Skierniewice
Folder 208: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Slonim
Folder 209: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1928: Sosnowiec
Folder 210: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929-1933: Stasnow
Folder 211: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Stanislawow
Folder 212: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926: Suwalki
Folder 213: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1929: Sniatyn
Folder 214: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Swieciany
Folder 215: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931: Szack
Folder 216: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927: Szumsk

Box 11A

Folder 217: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1935: Tarnopol
Folder 218: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932-1933: Torne
Folder 219: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Tomazow-Mazowiecki
Folder 220: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1924-1930: Warszawa
Folder 221: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931-1935: Warszawa
Folder 222: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930: Wielun
Folder 223: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1932: Wilno

Box 12

Folder 224: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933-1935: Wilno
Folder 225: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1934: Wisniowiec
Folder 226: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1934: Wloclawek
Folder 227: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1935: Wlodawa
Folder 228: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1925-1929: Wlodzimierz Wolynski
Folder 229: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1934: Wloszczawa
Folder 230: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1930-1932: Wolkowysk
Folder 231: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1927-1928: Wyszkow
Folder 232: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926: Zaleszczki
Folder 233: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1926-1933: Zamosc
Folder 234: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1934: Zawichost
Folder 235: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1933: Zbaszyn
Folder 236: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931: Zwierzyniec
Folder 237: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1931: Zkechow
Folder 238: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, undated: Zyrardow
Folder 239: Correspondence with Polish Theatrical Groups, 1932: Zywiec

Subseries 4: General Correspondence, 1925-1935

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by subject.

Box 12

Folder 240: Correspondence with the International Union of Stage and Theater Employees, 1927-1929
Folder 241: Correspondence with the International Union of Stage and Theater Employees, 1930-1935
Folder 242: Correspondence with State Authorities, 1925-1931
Folder 243: Correspondence with State Authorities, 1932-1933
Folder 244: Correspondence with State Authorities, 1934
Folder 245: Correspondence with State Authorities, 1935
Folder 246: Correspondence with the Union of Authors and Composers "Zaiks", 1933-1934
Folder 247: Invitations to Premiers and Celebrations, 1925-1935

Subseries 5: Correspondence with Permanant Acting Troupes, 1922-1936

This subseries contains contracts, telegrams, lists of performers, theater tickets and invitations, finance accounts and miscellaneous materials from several theaters and acting groups, most located in the urban centers of Poland, such as Warsaw, Vilna, Lodz, Klisz, Bialystok, Lwow, and Krakow.

Arrangement: Materials are arranged by theater alphabetically, according to the Yiddish alphabet.

Box 13

Folder 248: Unzer teater- vilne, 1933
Folder 248.1: Unzer teater- vilne, 1934
Folder 248.2: Unzer teater- vilne, 1935
Folder 249: Azazel - Varshe, 1926-1929
Folder 250: Azazel - Varshe, 1928-1929
Folder 251: Azazel - Varshe, 1930-1931
Folder 252: Operetta Troop - Vilne, 1924-1928
Folder 253: Ararat - Lodz, 1928-1929
Folder 254: Ararat - Lodz, 1930-1931

Box 13A

Folder 255: Ararat - Lodz, 1932-1936
Folder 256: Bialystoker yidisher teater, 1927-1932

Box 14

Folder 257: Bialystoker yidisher teater, 1934
Folder 258: Bialystoker yidisher teater, 1935
Folder 259: Bialystoker yidisher teater, 1936
Folder 260: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1928-1929
Folder 261: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1930
Folder 262: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1931
Folder 263: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1932
Folder 264: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1933-1934
Folder 265: Gimpl teater - Lemberg, 1935
Folder 266: Varshaver teater-vinkl

Box 15

Folder 267: Vidok - Vilne, 1930
Folder 268: Vilner trupe - Vilne, 1920-1926
Folder 269: Vilner trupe - Vilne, 1927-1928
Folder 270: Vilner trupe - Vilne, 1929-1930
Folder 271: Vilner trupe - Vilne, 1931-1932
Folder 272: Vilner trupe - Vilne, 1933-1935
Folder 273: Vint- Varshe, 1929-1930
Folder 274: Vint- Varshe, 1924-1933
Folder 275: Tshenshtokhover yidisher teater, 1928-1929

Box 16

Folder 276: Lodzer kolektiv, 1925-1927
Folder 277: Lodzer kolektiv, 1928-1929
Folder 278: Lodzer kolektiv, 1930-1932
Folder 279: Novoshtshi - Varshe, 1930-1931
Folder 280: Novoshtshi - Varshe, 1933-1935
Folder 281: Skala - Varshe, 1926
Folder 282: Skala - Varshe, 1927
Folder 283: Skala - Varshe, 1928
Folder 284: Skala - Varshe, 1929
Folder 285: Skala - Varshe, 1930-1931

Box 17

Folder 286: Skala - Varshe, 1932-1933
Folder 287: Skala - Varshe, 1934
Folder 288: Skala - Varshe, 1935-1936
Folder 289: Skala - Lodz, 1926-1933
Folder 290: Eldorado - Varshe, 1934-1935
Folder 291: Elizium - Varshe, 1926-1929
Folder 292: Elizium - Varshe, 1930-1932
Folder 293: Folksbine - Varshe, 1930-1931
Folder 294: Folksteater - Varshe, 1932-1934
Folder 295: Folks-teater - Lodz, 1934

Box 18

Folder 296: Folks-teater - Vilne, 1925-1927
Folder 297: Folks-teater - Vilne, 1928-1929
Folder 298: Folks-teater - Vilne, 1930-1931
Folder 299: Folks-teater - Vilne, 1932
Folder 300: Folks-teater - Vilne, 1933-1935
Folder 301: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1929-1930
Folder 302: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1931

Box 19

Folder 303: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1932
Folder 304: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1933
Folder 305: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1934
Folder 306: Filharmonye - Lodz, 1935-1936
Folder 307: Tsentral-teater - Varshe, 1931-1933
Folder 308: Kalisher yidisher teater, 1926-1935
Folder 309: Kameral' - Lodz, 1932-1933
Folder 310: Kaminski-teater - Varshe, 1922-1927
Folder 311: Kaminski-teater - Varshe, 1928-1929

Box 20

Folder 312: Kaminski-teater - Varshe, 1930-1932: Announcements by M. Schwartz
Folder 313: Kaminski-teater - Varshe, 1933-1935: M. Schwartz
Folder 314: Kino-fel - Varshe, 1931
Folder 315: Krokover yidisher teater, 1927
Folder 316: Krokover yidisher teater, 1932
Folder 317: Krokover yidisher teater, 1933
Folder 318: Krokover yidisher teater, 1934
Folder 319: Rozmaytoshtshi - Lodz, 1934-1935

Subseries 6: Correspondence with Touring Acting Troupes, 1924-1936

Arrangement: Materials are arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name.

Box 20

Folder 320: Abramov, A., 1928-1929
Folder 321: Abramov-Bialkovitch, 1932-1935

Box 21

Folder 322: Adler, Yulyus, un Benyomin, 1926-1929
Folder 323: Aspirantn-trupe, 1927-1928
Folder 324: Akselrod, M., 1930
Folder 325: Balburski, Hersh, 1926
Folder 326: Baratov, Paul, 1931
Folder 327: Bialkovitch, 1926-1927
Folder 328: Bialkovitch - Tshenstokhov, 1927
Folder 329: Bialkovitch - Tshenstokhov, 1928-1929
Folder 330: Bialkovitch - Tsvilik, 1928-1929
Folder 331: Bialkovitch, 1929-1930
Folder 332: Bialkovitch, 1930-1931
Folder 333: Bialkovitch, 1931-1932
Folder 334: Bialkovitch, 1935-1936

Box 22

Folder 335: Blat-Tufman, 1929-1930
Folder 336: Berman-Tsvilik, 1928-1929
Folder 337: Godik-Lilis, 1935
Folder 338: Getlikherman, L., 1934-1935
Folder 339: Getlikherman-Hershkovitch, 1931
Folder 340: Granakh, Aleksander, 1934
Folder 341: Dranov-Tupman, 1930-1931
Folder 342: Dranov-Trakhtnberg, 1929-1930
Folder 343: Halpern, Dine, Brodetski, 1931-1932
Folder 344: Halpern, Dine, Brodetski, 1935-1935
Folder 345: Hart, B., 1929-1931
Folder 346: Hart, B. - Prizament, 1933-1934
Folder 347: Herman, Dovid, 1930-1931
Folder 348: Hermelin-Bialkovitch, 1930-1932
Folder 349: Hershkovitch-Dranov, 1927
Folder 350: Vitler, Ben-Tsiyon, 1933-1934

Box 23

Folder 351: Vikher, M., 1927
Folder 352: Vinder, M., 1929
Folder 353: Vayntroyb, Sh., 1928-1929
Folder 354: Vayntroyb, Kurtz, 1927
Folder 355: Vayntroyb-Shtokfeder, 1929
Folder 356: Zaslavski, Rudolf, 1927-1935
Folder 357: Zayderman, Dovid, 1928-1929
Folder 358: Zilbert, Yankev, 1928-1929
Folder 359: Tanne, Leon, 1934
Folder 360: Turkov, Yonas, 1924-1926, 1927-1931
Folder 361: Turkov, Yonas, 1935
Folder 362: Yidishe bande, 1932-1933
Folder 363: Yidishe bande, 1934-1935

Box 24

Folder 364: Klivner, 1928-1929
Folder 365: Latovitch-Getlikherman, 1929-1933
Folder 366: Lipman, Moyshe, 1930
Folder 367: Mandel, Sh., 1933
Folder 368: Samberg, Avram, 1935
Folder 369: Sandler, Chaim, 1933-1934
Folder 370: Segalovitch, Clara, 1933
Folder 371: Pototska-Zolotarov, 1926-1926
Folder 372: Pototska-Zolotarov, 1927-1928
Folder 373: Pototska-Zolotarov, 1929-1931
Folder 374: Fuks, Leo, 1930
Folder 375: Floym-Bronshteyn, 1934-1935
Folder 376: Freylekhe Banditn, 1935

Box 25

Folder 377: Tsvilikh, Sh., 1935
Folder 378: Tsimbalist, K., 1934
Folder 379: Tsimbalist-Lampe, 1934
Folder 380: Tsimbalist-Landoy, 1930-1931
Folder 381: Tsimbalist-Tsuker, 1929-1934
Folder 382: Kagan, Berl, 1934
Folder 383: Kambarov, M. (Maksimov), 1935
Folder 384: Kompaniyets, Yisroel, 1926-1927
Folder 385: Kanievska, V. Breytman, 1936
Folder 386: Karpinovitch, M., 1927-1929
Folder 387: Kadish-Khash, 1927-1928
Folder 388: Kadish-Khash, 1928-1929
Folder 389: Kadish-Khash, 1929-1930
Folder 390: Kadish-Khash, 1931

Box 26

Folder 391: Kadish-Khash, 1931-1932
Folder 392: Kadish-Khash, 1934-1936
Folder 393: Krelman, Yitshak, 1930
Folder 394: Rozen, Sh., 1926
Folder 395: Rozen, Sh. M. Kleyn, 1927-1928
Folder 396: Shoshana-Lampe, 1931-1934
Folder 397: Shoshana-Kurtz, 1928-1929
Folder 398: Tel-Aviv, 1935-1936

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