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Nathaniel Buchwald papers and lecture notes
- Title
- Nathaniel Buchwald papers and lecture notes, 1927-1940.
- Author
- Buchwald, Nathaniel, 1890-
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- Additional Authors
- Buchwald, Nathaniel, 1890-
- Description
- 1 portfolio (4 folders)
- Summary
- The Nathaniel Buchwald papers and lecture notes span 1927-1940 and consist of lecture notes, a five page ballet synopsis, a program and a handbill relating to the life and career of Nathaniel Buchwald, a critic and co-founder of the Artef Players Collective.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Lecture notes.
- Synopses.
- Programs.
- Handbills.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography (note)
- Nathaniel Buchwald (1890-1956), drama critic, teacher, and authority on Yiddish theater, was also a co-founder of the Artef Players Collective, a Yiddish dramatic group, active in New York from the late 1920's to 1940.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1957-002
- OCLC
- NYPW00-A112
- Author
- Buchwald, Nathaniel, 1890-
- Title
- Nathaniel Buchwald papers and lecture notes, 1927-1940.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Nathaniel Buchwald (1890-1956), drama critic, teacher, and authority on Yiddish theater, was also a co-founder of the Artef Players Collective, a Yiddish dramatic group, active in New York from the late 1920's to 1940. Born in the Ukraine, Nathaniel Buchwald came to the U.S. as a young man and studied at the University of Georgia, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and New York University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry. He became a journalist, contributing pieces in Yiddish to the Jewish Daily Forward of New York, then co-founded the Morning Freiheit in 1922. Mr. Buchwald became the Morning Freiheit's drama critic, and also wrote a theater column for the monthly Jewish Life. In 1925, he and several like-minded colleagues formed the Artef Players Collective, a drama troupe dedicated to performing "plays of social import," supported by subscribers and by the players themselves. The collective staged its first production in 1927, and prospered during the Depression, but eventually experienced financial and other difficulties resulting in a two-year hiatus, 1937-9. The group resumed work with Louis Miller's CLINTON STREET in autumn 1939, but despite positive notices and popular support they disbanded in February 1940. In 1943 Nathaniel Buchwald published a book on Yiddish theater in America. He died in 1956.
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- Added Author
- Buchwald, Nathaniel, 1890- Lebedik un Freilach.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1957-002