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2 unusual facts about Jewish theater


Gavriel Mullokandov

In 1930-32 Gavriel and Mihoel Mullokandovs together with other Bukharian activists organized a Bukharian Jewish theater in Samarkand.

Jewish theater

Association for Jewish Theatre, an American cultural organization dedicated to helping its members produce “plays relevant to Jewish life and values.”



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Jewish Theater of New York

The Jewish Theater of New York is a theatre company founded in 1994, with the production of One Hundred Gates by playwright/director Tuvia Tenenbom.

Jews in Kyrgyzstan

The Jewish Theater Company of Warsaw with the renowned actress Ida Kaminska (1899−1980) was evacuated to Bishkek until it was moved back to Europe after the war.

Tuvia Tenenbom

Tuvia Tenenbom (born in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a theater director, playwright, author, journalist, essayist and the founding artistic director of the Jewish Theater of New York, the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City.

Zalman Kornblit

Bercovici, Israil, O sută de ani de teatru evriesc în România ("One hundred years of Yiddish/Jewish theater in Romania"), 2nd Romanian-language edition, revised and augmented by Constantin Măciucă.