Notebook from American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, containing handwritten text of Sholem Aleichem play
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
Acquired, March 2012.
Scope and Content
One notebook, 31 leaves, produced by the American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, undated. One cover contains a map of Israel with the name of the committee in Hebrew, the other cover contains a map of Italy with the name of the committee in English. The handwritten contents consist of act 2 of the play "Shver tsu zayn a Yid," by Sholem Aleichem. An ink stamp on the verso of the front cover states, in Hebrew, that this belonged to the "Estate of Michael Greenstein, director and actor of the Yiddish theatre, 1915-2004, and Dr. Miriam Greenstein, 1916-2000."
People
- Greenstein, Michael.
- Greenstein, Miriam.
- Aleichem, Sholem, 1859-1916.
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Subjects
- Theatre, Yiddish.
Genre
- Notebooks.
- Document