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Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland

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Title

Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland

Date

1929

Description

This is a membership card of Kalmen Ebel, a performer active in the Yiddish theater in the 1920s. The union was established in 1919, in the wake of the protection of minorities worked into the post-WWI Treaty of Versailles. "It was understood not simply as a guild, but as a "spiritual creative" ("gaystik sheferishn") organization. Exemplary of the creative struggles of the Jews in interwar Poland

Source

RG8

Publisher

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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Citation

“Membership card to the Professional Yiddish Actors' Union of Poland,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed December 23, 2024, https://shaulgoldman.yivo.org/items/show/2229.
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