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Conversations with Seymour Rechtzeit

Seymour Rechtzeit remembers some of the most important figures from the heyday of the American Yiddish theater. Includes footage from a performance of David Meyerowitz's Vos geven iz geven un nito, and a trip to the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance Block at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York. Interview by Neil W. Levin and Robert Abelson. Milken Archive oral history excerpt.

Date: January 25, 1995

Credit: Milken Family Foundation

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Abraham Goldfaden Bessie Thomashefsky Boris Thomashefsky David Meyerowitz Joseph Rumshinsky Miriam Kressyn Molly Picon Seymour Rechtzeit short documentary theater Yiddish Yiddish Theater

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