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unusual facts about Yiddish Theater District


Arnold Perlmutter

In 1906 Perlmutter and Wohl composed the music for a romantic drama in English, The Shepherd King; in 1909, Boris Thomashefsky's Dos Pintele Yid and Di sheyne Amerikanerin; and for scores of other historical operettas of the Second Avenue Yiddish Theater District theaters through the early years of the twentieth century.


Jenny Valliere

Along with Molly Picon, she was a star at New York City's Second Avenue Theater in the Yiddish Theater District; a 1925 New York Times article singles them out as the only women whose talents provided the major anchor for a New York Yiddish theater at that time.


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