From the Bowery to Broadway: Women of the Yiddish Stage | MCNY Blog: New York Stories
Last week, the Museum opened “New York’s Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway,” a fabulous new exhibition that explores the history and influence of Yiddish theater in New York City. Continuing March’s theme of celebrating women in history, this week we take a brief look at a few of the beautiful, daring, complicated, and incredibly talented women from Yiddish theater.
Unknown. [Stella Adler as Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing!.] 1935.
Born on the Lower East Side in 1901, Stella Adler–youngest daughter in what many consider to be the greatest acting family of the Yiddish stage–grew up watching her parents and siblings perform in Yiddish. She made her stage debut at the tender age of four, and her first English-language Broadway appearance at 21, performing in…
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