Stage Show
Creator(s)
- Chayele Rosenthal (Performer)
Biographical History
Chayela Rosenthal (Khayele Rozental) (b. Vilna, 1924-d. Cape Town, 1979). A professional singer and actress before the war, Rosenthal was an early and active participant in the Vilna ghetto theater. Surviving the ghetto and several camps, she resumed her career in postwar Paris, and continued to entertain internationally (in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English) after settling in South Africa in 1951. For further information on Rosenthal, see https://chayela.wordpress.com; www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/R/rosenthal-chayela.htm.
Scope and Content
Stage Show - Chayele Rosenthal. Gallotone. This is an LP recorded in South Africa ca. late 1950s featuring songs and routines from Ms. Rosenthal's night club act. Side A, Track 1, Wos Gewen Is Gewen Side A, Track 2, Shalom! Side A, Track 3, An American Tourist in Israel - I Love Theatre Side A, Track 4, Israeli Songs Side B, Track 1, I Don't Want to Be a Rabbi Side B, Track 2, Chaptomania Side B, Track 3, Friday Night Side B, Track 4, Mayofes Side B, Track 5, Chi'ri'bin. Chassidic Songs Side B, Track 6, Mother and Daughter
Note(s)
Related collection: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn500589. For more information about Vilna ghetto singer/actress Chayele Rosenthal, visit www.chayela.wordpress.com.
Genre
- Recorded Sound
- Music.