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Title

Yiddish drama.

Authors

• Kreshover, Max, 1890-1967
  קרעשאווער, מאקס

Other related names

• Goldman, Yosef, former owner
• Kessler, Jakob, former owner
• Kessler, Jakob, signer
• Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat (Bucharest, Romania), associated name

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 758
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979448511103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1484676678
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3db7ws2v

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Yiddish; half of the fragment with the personis dramatae, and autographs, written in German

Origin

Date

1914

Place

Bucharest, Romania?

Summary

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.

Notes

• 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).
   
• 1. f.1r-32r: Ershṭe aḳṭ -- 2. f.33r-63v: Tsṿayṭer aḳṭ -- 3. f.64r-88v: Driṭer aḳṭ -- 4. f.89r-105v: Firṭer aḳṭ.
   

Extent

105 leaves : 23 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• plays (performing arts compositions)
• Drama

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Ershṭe aḳṭ
• fol. 33r — Tsṿayṭer aḳṭ
• fol. 65r — Driṭer aḳṭ
• fol. 90r — Firṭer aḳṭ.