Notebook from American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, containing handwritten text of Sholem Aleichem play

Identifier
irn46963
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.143.9
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

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folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.

Acquired, March 2012.

Scope and Content

One notebook, 31 leaves, produced by the American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, undated. One cover contains a map of Israel with the name of the committee in Hebrew, the other cover contains a map of Italy with the name of the committee in English. The handwritten contents consist of act 2 of the play "Shver tsu zayn a Yid," by Sholem Aleichem. An ink stamp on the verso of the front cover states, in Hebrew, that this belonged to the "Estate of Michael Greenstein, director and actor of the Yiddish theatre, 1915-2004, and Dr. Miriam Greenstein, 1916-2000."

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