Poster for a performance by Habimah in support of Holocaust survivors
- Artwork Title
- Neshef Vilna
- Date
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publication/distribution:
approximately 1948-1950
- Geography
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publication:
Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Language
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Hebrew
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Performing arts posters
- Object Type
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Posters, Israeli (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Event poster illustrated by destroyed buildings issued by the Association for Aid and Rescue of Jews from Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) and the vicinity. It announces an event for Holocaust survivors by Habimah, an internationally acclaimed Hebrew repertory theater company founded in Moscow in 1918, with training and support from Stanislavski. Members of the troupe hoped to create a Jewish renaissance by reviving the Hebrew language. Habimah left the Soviet Union in 1926, and toured throughout the world until splitting in 1927. Some members settled in Palestine and Habimah was reestablished in Tel Aviv in the 1930s, eventually becoming Israel's National Theater. Among the participants at this event were Yehoshua Bertonov (1879-1971), and Shmuel Rodensky (1904-1989), both natives of Lithuania and members of Habimah in Russia.
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Record last modified: 2023-05-24 09:20:15
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The collection consists of a poster and several archival collections relating to the Jewish experience before, during, and after the Holocaust in the British Mandate in Palestine.
Date: 1934-approximately 1949
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Names list, participants at Agudat Israel training camp, Poland, 1934
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Typewritten lists of participants in training camps (kibbutzim hachsharot) operated in various locations in Poland by Agudat Israel during the 1930s.
Soldier's get document
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One postcard, pre-printed and with signature of a Jewish soldier, declaring that in the event of his death, his wife would not be bound to remain married to him. Addressed to Rabbi Yeshayahu Refaelowitz, Tel-Aviv, 1940.
Documents, First Camouflage Company (Palestine), Royal Engineers
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