[Yiddish drama].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Kreshover, Max, 1890-1967, author.

Contributor:

Goldman, Yosef, former owner.

Kessler, Jakob, former owner, signer.

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

Language:

German

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Theater, Yiddish--Romania--Bucharest--20th century--Drama.

Theater, Yiddish.

Manuscripts, Yiddish--Romania--Bucharest--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Yiddish.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

plays (performing arts compositions)

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by collector Yosef Goldman (Israel Mizrahi).

Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024.

Physical Description:

105 leaves : paper ; 23 cm

Production:

[Bucharest, Romania?], [1914]

[בוקארעשט, רומניה], [1914]

Language Note:

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

Biography/History:

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.

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.

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.

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).

Title supplied by cataloger; a small fragment of the title page survives at beginning, with only the word "דער" visible.

Cited as:

Yiddish drama (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 758). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1484676678