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Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland
Title
Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland
Date
1929
Description
This is a membership card of Kalmen Ebel, a performer active in the Yiddish theater in the 1920s. The union was established in 1919, in the wake of the protection of minorities worked into the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles. "It was understood not simply as a guild, but as a "spiritual creative" ("gaystik sheferishn") organization. Exemplary of the creative struggles of the Jews in interwar Poland
Source
RG8
Publisher
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
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Citation
“Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed April 19, 2024, https://strashunlibrary.yivo.org/items/show/2229.