Kopyczyńce. Busy street scene outside a Jewish-owned inn.

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Title:
Kopyczyńce. Busy street scene outside a Jewish-owned inn.
Description:
Kopyczyńce. Busy street scene outside a Jewish-owned inn, Kopyczyńce, Poland (now Kopychintsy, Ukr.), 1920s. The photographer explains, "In this very house Yiddish theater has been performed—the best American Yiddish performers, originally from Russian and Romania. . . . The performers played in the [inn's] stable."

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