Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn. Both were well known performers in the celebrated "heyday" of the American Yiddish theater.
Seymour Rechtzeit.
Seymour Rechtzeit, Robert Abelson and Neil Levin. Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, New York. The cemetery is home to the grave of Boris Thomashevsky and many other important Yiddish theater figures.
Cantor Moshe Ganchoff and Yiddish theater and radio star Seymour Rechtzeit. Ratner's Deli, New York, New York. Both were mainstays at the WEVD radio station in New York.
Seymour Rechtzeit. At the piano.
Seymour Rechtzeit. An important primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project, Rechtzeit was a famous Yiddish theater performe and radio host, as well as the founder of Banner Records.
“The Four-year-old Wonderchild Rechtzeit”. Cover of Seymour Rechtzeit's (1912–2002) first recording, released when the famous Yiddish theater performer was just four years old.
Seymour Rechtzeit and Mirriam Kressyn (front, center) with the board of the Yiddish Actor's Union. Date unknown.
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