Women in the Performing Arts
Bertha Kalich: Star of the New York Stage
by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Above image: Yiddish theater poster for Bertha Kalich in Midway at Irving Place Theatre. c/o American Jewish Historical Society.
Bertha Kalich was born in 1874 in Lemberg in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, what is today Lvov, Ukraine….
Women Represented in the Collections: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) was a Jewish-American historian well-known for her polemical writings on the devastation of the Nazi genocide and the historical rise of Christian and German anti-Semitism.
Dawidowicz, born Lucy Schildkret to immigrants of Eastern Europe in New York City, was immersed…
Book cover from Ish-Sheleg. Ber Saryn. 1937. Vilna, Lithuania. Yeshiva University Museum.
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Jerusalem Under Snow, 1934. Black and white slide. Yeshiva University Museum.
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