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Lot 562

Books about Jewish Theatre

Six Yiddish books about Jewish theatre, most of them with photographs of plays and theatre-sets:
Dos teater un der sotsyalizm, by Ya'akov Wasermann. Warsaw, 1921. (Ttile page detached and torn). * Geshikhte fun yiddisher teater-kunst un drame, fun di elteste tsayten biz 1750, by dr. Yitzchak Shifer. Kultur Lige, Warsaw, 1923, 1925, 1928. Three volumes, the first printed in 1500 copies, the second and thirs in 1000. * Arkhiv far der geshikhte fun yidishen teater un draem, edited by Dr. Ya'akov Shatsky. Vilnius-New-York, 1930. First volume. * Yidisher teater 1887-1917, by Nachum Oyslender. "Der emes" , Moscow, 1940. (302 pp only, 9 last leaves missing). * 80 yor yidish teater in rumenye 1876-1956. [Bucarest, 1956]. Yiddish and Romanian. * Arum moskver yidishen teater, by Joseph Shein. Paris, 1964.
Six books in eight volumes, size and condition varies. From Dr. Israel Mehlman's collection.