Metadata : Collection of Event Programmes
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- National Library of Latvia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Nacionālā Bibliotēka
- Postal address:
- Mūkusalas iela 3, Rīga, LV-1423
- Phone number:
- +371 6780 6100
- Web address:
- www.lnb.lv
- Email:
- lnb@lnb.lv
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- National Library of Latvia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Nacionālā Bibliotēka
- Postal address:
- Mūkusalas iela 3, Rīga, LV-1423
- Phone number:
- +371 6780 6100
- Web address:
- www.lnb.lv
- Email:
- lnb@lnb.lv
- Reference number:
- RXA255
- Title:
- Collection of Event Programmes
- Title (official language):
- Sarīkojumu programmu kolekcija
- Date(s):
- 1899/1940
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Yiddish
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 24 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Collection of Event Programmes contains thousands of handwritten and printed programs for theatre performances, concerts, festive evenings, school events; posters, short plays, letters, and invitations from all over Latvia. The host organisation submitted the programme to the city prefecture or to the head of the district administration. Among these events, programmes of Jewish organisations have been preserved. For example, the programme of Sholom Aleichem’s play “Der Rebe un di Rebecen”, performed on 24 July 1921 on school premises for families and with the participation of children. The actors were Veksler, Sandler, Rabinovich, Brahman, Gurevich and others. In the evening, the "Heder" - "live picture", the Hatikvah and other songs were performed. After the performance, there were dances. The collection also includes programmes for the dramatic and musical evening of the Jewish society of I.L.Peretz, the "grand evening with theatre and dancing" of the organisation Tseirei Zion, the theatrical performance of the Jewish community of Bauska, the performance "Di Gebrohene Herzer" of the Arbeiterheim community of Ludza, evenings of the Jewish basic school in Karsava and the Jewish school in Jekabpils, the comic operetta by A. Shor “Di Amerikanerin” of the joint drama section of Tseirei Zion, Gekhalutz and Gekhaver organizations at the Latgale Theater, and other programmes. The collection of this fonds will be interesting to researchers of Jewish theatre, music and social life from the beginning of the 20th century until 1940.
- Archival history:
- Unknown
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish theatre in Latvia offered a varied repertoire - plays and dramas of classics of world and Jewish literature as well as musical performances. Of the Jewish classics, the works of Sholom Aleichem, Sh. Ash, F. Bimko, A. Goldfaden, Y. Gordin and others were most often staged. Operettas and musical comedies comprised a significant part of the repertoire. According to the Jewish historian B. Volkovich, a large audience preferred entertaining productions in Yiddish, which Jewish writers and intelligentsia called the “shund theatre” (i.e. quickie, trash; non-artistic plays were called “shund-play”). Actors rehearsed little and improvised at the performance. Nevertheless, the shund theatre was loved by the mass audience, had close contacts with the audience and understood its needs. This theatre performed a cultural mission: actors traveled around all the settlements where Jews lived. The drama of the shund theatre in its own way reflected the problems that concerned Jewish society.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
- Reference number:
- RXA255
- Title:
- Collection of Event Programmes
- Title (official language):
- Sarīkojumu programmu kolekcija
- Date(s):
- 1899/1940
- Language:
- Latvian
- Russian
- Yiddish
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 24 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The Collection of Event Programmes contains thousands of handwritten and printed programs for theatre performances, concerts, festive evenings, school events; posters, short plays, letters, and invitations from all over Latvia. The host organisation submitted the programme to the city prefecture or to the head of the district administration. Among these events, programmes of Jewish organisations have been preserved. For example, the programme of Sholom Aleichem’s play “Der Rebe un di Rebecen”, performed on 24 July 1921 on school premises for families and with the participation of children. The actors were Veksler, Sandler, Rabinovich, Brahman, Gurevich and others. In the evening, the "Heder" - "live picture", the Hatikvah and other songs were performed. After the performance, there were dances. The collection also includes programmes for the dramatic and musical evening of the Jewish society of I.L.Peretz, the "grand evening with theatre and dancing" of the organisation Tseirei Zion, the theatrical performance of the Jewish community of Bauska, the performance "Di Gebrohene Herzer" of the Arbeiterheim community of Ludza, evenings of the Jewish basic school in Karsava and the Jewish school in Jekabpils, the comic operetta by A. Shor “Di Amerikanerin” of the joint drama section of Tseirei Zion, Gekhalutz and Gekhaver organizations at the Latgale Theater, and other programmes. The collection of this fonds will be interesting to researchers of Jewish theatre, music and social life from the beginning of the 20th century until 1940.
- Archival history:
- Unknown
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Jewish theatre in Latvia offered a varied repertoire - plays and dramas of classics of world and Jewish literature as well as musical performances. Of the Jewish classics, the works of Sholom Aleichem, Sh. Ash, F. Bimko, A. Goldfaden, Y. Gordin and others were most often staged. Operettas and musical comedies comprised a significant part of the repertoire. According to the Jewish historian B. Volkovich, a large audience preferred entertaining productions in Yiddish, which Jewish writers and intelligentsia called the “shund theatre” (i.e. quickie, trash; non-artistic plays were called “shund-play”). Actors rehearsed little and improvised at the performance. Nevertheless, the shund theatre was loved by the mass audience, had close contacts with the audience and understood its needs. This theatre performed a cultural mission: actors traveled around all the settlements where Jews lived. The drama of the shund theatre in its own way reflected the problems that concerned Jewish society.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Jana Makarova
