Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre
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The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919 – December 2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, and theatre director. The first play was The Innkeeper.[1] Wasserman[2] directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "the most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward",[3] referring to a Yiddish newspaper. The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world.
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References
- ↑ "Yiddish theater impresario Dora Wasserman receives Order of Canada".
- ↑ Dora Wasserman, The indefatigable founding director of Canada's only Yiddish theatre died at 84. Archived February 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jewish Women's Archive
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- Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Montreal
- Yiddish theatre
- Theatre companies in Quebec
- Organizations based in Montreal
- Jewish Canadian culture
- Jewish theatres
- Jewish organizations based in Canada
- Jews and Judaism in Montreal
- Organizations established in 1958
- Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
- Yiddish culture in Quebec
- 1958 establishments in Quebec
- Theatre in Montreal