[Yiddish drama]

Creator:

Kreshover, Max, 1890-1967 (author)

Contributor:

Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (Bucharest, Romania) (associated name)

Timespan:

20th century

Date:

1914

Description:

Yiddish drama, written by a young Max Kreshover, sent to be performed in the Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat, Bucharest, Romania (also known as the Jewish State Theater) and undersigned by Bucharest Yiddish theater official Jakob Kessler (signatures on f. 32r; "Max Kreshover, Feb. 20, 1914", "Jakob Kessler, Bucarest, den 18/9 [19]14"). The dramatis personae were listed on a page torn off the beginning (they include: "Rav Leṿenṭal", Abraham Raytzman, Mordkhay Madfis, "Ḥane Ḥayeh", "Meri" (Mary?), and some German names survive on a fragment on the facing page. Corrections, additions, and stage instructions written into manuscript in various contemporary hands; "Firṭer aḳṭ" written in a different hand, possibly at a later time.

Language:

Yiddish

Provenance:

Formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).; Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024.; Goldman, Yosef, former owner.; Kessler, Jakob, former owner, signer.

Subject:

Theater, Yiddish -- Romania -- Bucharest -- 20th century -- Drama; Manuscripts, Yiddish -- Romania -- Bucharest -- 20th century -- Specimens

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); plays (performing arts compositions); drama (literary genre); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

105 leaves : paper; 23 cm

Notes:

Max Kreshover, born in Dzików (today Tarnobrzeg, Poland), 1890, immigrated to New York circa 1906, and worked in the Yiddish theatre in the United States; this manuscript possibly written on a 1913-1914 European tour. Kreshover later worked as a press agent in the New York theater industry.; Bound in a paper medical record form for "Yosif Adesar", Bucharest, for the Policlinica "Dr. Juliu Barasch", Strada Biserica Udricani, 8, București (known as the Baraşeum clinic, adjoining the State Jewish Theater, founded by Julius Barasch (1815-1863), physician and member of the Enlightenment).; In Yiddish; half of the fragment with the personis dramatae, and autographs, written in German.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-32r: Ershṭe aḳṭ -- 2. f.33r-63v: Tsṿayṭer aḳṭ -- 3. f.64r-88v: Driṭer aḳṭ -- 4. f.89r-105v: Firṭer aḳṭ.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 758