Online Auction 09 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Jewish Theater Postcards- Early 20th century
Opening: $100
Sold for: $200
Including buyer's premium
* 18 postcards portraying figures in the play 'Anathema' by Leoni Andreyev. Additional copy of one of the postcards. Photographs from the performance in the Moscow Art Theater. Photographer K. Fisher. [1909].
'Anathema' is a metaphysical tragedy in seven pictures inspired by 'Faust'. The protagonist is a poor Jewish shopkeeper named David Leizer.
* 5 postcards portraying figures from the play 'Miserere' by Semion Yoshkevitz, known as "Jewish Chekhov". Photographs from the performance in Moscow Art Theater. Photographer: K. Fisher. [1910].
* 2 undivided postcards portraying the actor Vsevolod Meyerhold in the play 'The Death of Ivan the Terrible' by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. [1899].
Lot of 26 postcards. Good condition. Some were used. Some are ink-stamped. Some wear at corners.
See: Jews and theatre in an intercultural context, Edna Nahshon. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 2012.
'Anathema' is a metaphysical tragedy in seven pictures inspired by 'Faust'. The protagonist is a poor Jewish shopkeeper named David Leizer.
* 5 postcards portraying figures from the play 'Miserere' by Semion Yoshkevitz, known as "Jewish Chekhov". Photographs from the performance in Moscow Art Theater. Photographer: K. Fisher. [1910].
* 2 undivided postcards portraying the actor Vsevolod Meyerhold in the play 'The Death of Ivan the Terrible' by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. [1899].
Lot of 26 postcards. Good condition. Some were used. Some are ink-stamped. Some wear at corners.
See: Jews and theatre in an intercultural context, Edna Nahshon. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 2012.
Greeting Cards, Postcards and Photographs
Greeting Cards, Postcards and Photographs