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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Ezra
Lahad
Yiddish & Hebrew theater : ephemera,
Date (inclusive): 1936-1974
Collection number: M1133
Collector:
Lahad,
Ezra
, 1918-1995
Extent:
2 linear ft.
(4 manuscript boxes)
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Abstract: Yiddish and other theater ephemera including Purim plays, a program aabout Ida Kaminska and the Jewish State Theatre of Poland,
and programs for the Fourth Theatre Festival of Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To
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Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Preferred Citation
Ezra
Lahad
Yiddish & Hebrew theater : ephemera. M1133. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Acquisition Information
Received by the library, 1998.
Biography
Ezra
Lahad
(1918-1995) was born in Minsk, attended a Yiddish-language gymnasium in Vilna (Vilnieus), and emigrated to Palestine in 1935.
From 1948 to 1961 he served in the Israeli Defense Forces, in military procurement and ammunitions. His last position in the
IDF was editor of the bulletin of the Israeli fleet, "Be-ma'arkhot yam." Subsequently, in civilian life, he edited a publication
issued by the municipality of Haifa, "Hefah 'ovedet." Upon retirement he served as a volunteer at the Ghetto Fighters' House,
a Holocaust museum and archive located in a kibbutz in northern Israel that was established by Holocaust survivors.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Yiddish and other theater ephemera including Purim plays, a program aabout Ida Kaminska and the Jewish State Theatre of Poland,
and programs for the Fourth Theatre Festival of Moscow-Leningrad, 1936.
Access Terms
Kaminska, Ida.
Jewish State Theatre of Poland.
Fourth Theatre Festival Moscow-Leningrad (1936 Sept. 1-10)
Jewish theater.
Theater, Yiddish.