LEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER / materialn gezamlt un redaktirt fun Zalmen Zilbertsveyg, bay der nontster mitarbet fun Ya`akov Mestel (ID: 33434)
Authorship or Source:
- Zylbercweig, Zalmen, 1894-1972.
- Mestel, Jacob, 1884-1958.
- Idisher aktyoren yunyon (U.S.)
- Hebrew Actors Union of America.
Year:
1931-1969
Title or Main Description:
LEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER / materialn gezamlt un redaktirt fun Zalmen Zilbertsveyg, bay der nontster mitarbet fun Ya`akov Mestel ; aroysgegebn unter der hashgoheh fun der Yidisher Aktiorn-Yunye in Amerike.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
Nyu-York [New York] : Farlag Elisheva`
Description:
6 v. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 30 cm.
Type of Work:
Book
Alternate or Series Title:
- Lexicon of the Yiddish theatre.
- Lexicon del teatro judío.
- Lexicon del teatro judio.
- Kedoyshim band.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- USHMM Library: Oversize PN3035 .Z895 1931.
- Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Call Number: PN3035 .Z895 Hebr.
- New York Public Library, Jewish Division, New York, NY, United States, Call No: *P-*PTQ+ (Zylbercwaig, Z. Leksikon fun Yidishn teater. 1931-1969)
Keywords:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead.
- Jewish theater --Biography --Collections.
- Jewish actors --Biography --Collections.
- Theater, Yiddish --Dictionaries.
Abstract:
- Volume 5 of this series, the "Kedoyshim band" [= "Martyrs' volume"] published in Mexico City in 1967, contains biographies, most with portraits, of actors and others involved in the Yiddish theater who perished in the Holocaust as well as descriptions of theater organizations destroyed by the Nazis. Although the biographies are not arranged in alphabetical order, an index to them is found as "Rashimah fun di biografies fun finften band" [= List of the biographies of the fifth volume"] on pp. xiii-xvi.
- A "Cumulative Index to Zalman Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater / compiled by Faith Jones, Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library, 2002" covering all of the volumes of the series can be found on the Internet at http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/leksikonindex.html.
Language and Other Notes:
- Vol. 5 has subtitle: Kedoyshim band.
- Vol. 5 has added English t.p.: Lexicon of the Yiddish theatre / compiled and edited by Zalmen Zybercweig ; published under the auspices of the Hebrew Actors Union of America.
- Vol. 5 has added Spanish t.p.: Lexicon del teatro judío / recopilado y editado por Zalmen Zybercweig ; publicado bajo los auspicios de "La Union de Actores Judios de Norteamerica".
- Vol. 2 published in Warsaw; v. 5-6 in Mexico City.
- Romanized catalog record.
- LCCN: 32-000813