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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….

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