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

Translation

Professional Yiddish Actors' Union in Poland

No. 394
MEMBERSHIP CARD
Membership:
Address:
Member's Signature:
Secretary:

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Citation

“Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 23, 2024, https://strashunlibrary.yivo.org/items/show/2229.

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