Guide to the Sabell Bender Papers M2850
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2022
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Sabell Bender papers
Creator:
Bender, Sabell
Identifier/Call Number: M2850
Physical Description:
9 Linear Feet
(22 manuscript boxes and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1900-2000
Abstract: Collection of Jewish performance and event programs, scripts, publicity, and other material including teaching material by
actor and director Sabell Bender.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, 2022. Accession 2022-307.
Biographical / Historical
Sabell Bender was born in New York City in 1927, moved with her family to Los Angeles at the age of seven, and studied acting
and directing with the legendary acting coach Maria Ouspenskaya. She served as Chair of the Theater Arts department at Oakwood
School in North Hollywood for 25 years. During the 1950s and 1960s, she was the principal of the Los Angeles Kindershuls and
Mitlshuls, where she developed curricula that combined Yiddish literature and the politics of radical social justice. As a
founding member of the Yiddish language Folksbine Theater in Los Angeles, Sabell Bender directed and produced dozens of plays
in Yiddish and English. She also lectured widely and gave workshops on Yiddish theater.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Sabell Bender papers (M2850). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, California.
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Jewish holiday and event materials (boxes 2-3) lecture notes (boxes 4-7); pedagogical materials (boxes
8-9); playscripts (boxes 20-22); and hundreds of theater and other event programs (boxes 20-23).
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Box 1
Clippings on Yiddish language and theater
Box 8, folder 5
Letters in praise of Sabell Bender
Box 2, Box 3
Holiday & event materials
Box 4, Box 5, Box 6, Box 7
Lecture notes on Yiddish theater
Box 19, folder 1
Photographs, Yidishe Folksbine
Programs: Theater and other events
Box 10, Box 11, Box 12
Performing Arts: California's Theater and Music Magazine
Box 14
The Playgoer: The magazine in the theater
Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19
Programs, Los Angeles; Southern California; and misc.
Scripts: Yidishe Folksbine and Mitlshul productions
Box 20, folder 1
Temple Beth Ami: Marionette Mutiny
Box 20, folder 2
Way, way down East: Melodrama, Camp 1976
Box 20, folder 3
Town of the little people, where Yosef got an idea
Box 20, folder 4, flat-box 23
Berl Isaac reports on America & handmade protest signs
Box 20, folder 6
Hershl Ostropoler, camp version
Box 20, folder 7
Motl Payses, Mitlshul production
Box 20, folder 9
King Saul the II, Camp Hess Kramer 1976 version
Box 20, folder 10
Puppet play: Nabeth and his vineyard
Box 20, folder 11
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto
Box 20, folder 16
The Broken Sabbath of Rabbi Asher
Box 21, folder 3
75,000 by Sholem Aleichem
Box 21, folder 4
How Uriel got into heaven
Box 21, folder 11
Shulamit, by A. Goldfaden
Box 21, folder 13
Fortieth Anniversary of LA Kinder & Mitlshuls celebration
Box 22, folder 4
Sholem Aleichem program, ideas and scripts
