Browsing tag

Women in the Performing Arts

Women in the Performing Arts: Molly PiconĀ 
by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

The transition of the performance industry of America from stage to film was difficult for many to manage. One of the most beloved Jewish American actresses who managed that transition successfully was Molly Picon. We all remember her as the elderly but impish Yente…

1216 0

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….

1133 0