Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman papers
Extent and Medium
folders
5
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Radu Ioanid
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Radu Ioanid donated the Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Scope and Content
The Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman collection consists of an annotated business card, photographs, clippings, flyers, musical scores, and programs documenting Elly Roman’s work with the Teatrul Baraşeum in Bucharest during World War II, musical reviews, and performances of “Ce faci asta seara?” and “Ce faci dupa masa?” The Teatrul Baraşeum was a theater operated in Bucharest from 1941 to 1944 by a group of Jewish artists banned from Romanian cultural institutions under racist legislation during General Ion Antonescu’s administration. Performances were allowed only in Romanian under Antonescu, but Yiddish performances began following his overthrow. The Baraşeum was succeeded by the State Jewish Theater (Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat) under the communist regime. Elly Roman (1905-1996) was a Romanian composer whose works were performed at the Baraşeum.
System of Arrangement
The Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman collection is arranged as a three series: I. Business card for Elly Roman, 1943, II. Photographic materials, approximately 1942, III. Printed materials, approximately 1941-1945
People
- Roman, Elly.
Corporate Bodies
- Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (Bucharest, Romania)
Subjects
- Jewish theater--Romania--Bucharest.
- Bucharest (Romania)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document