Boymṿol, L., 1892-1920

The collection contains play manuscripts, programs, playbills, posters, photographs, correspondence, agreements, scrapbooks, clippings, printed ephemera, and memorabilia relating to Yiddish theater primarily in the early twentieth century, especially the interwar period. Also included are items of printed ephemera related to Yiddish film, Hebrew theater, and a broad range of Jewish performers, including cantors, singers and dancers. Geographically, the materials originate predominantly in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, including parts of the Russian Empire and, later, the Soviet Union; and, to a lesser extent, the United States, especially New York City. Also included are materials from Western Europe, Palestine (Eretz Israel), South America, and other regions around the world. Among the theater personalities represented in the collection with significant amounts of material are Herz Grossbard, David Herman, Joseph Winogradoff, Rudolf Zaslavsky, Zygmunt Turkow, Jonas Turkow, Moyshe Lipman, Ida Kaminska, and Esther Rachel Kaminska. The theater groups best represented include the Varshever Yidisher Kunst-Teater (VYKT; Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater), founded by Zygmunt Turkow and Ida Kaminska; the Vilna Troupe; Yung Teater / Nay Teater (Warsaw; Vilna), under the direction of Michael Weichert; the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (known by its Russian acronym "GOSET"); Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre, of New York; and the Hebrew theater "Habimah." A wide variety of other professional as well as amateur theater groups are represented with smaller amounts of material.

- "Di fir farlibte" in Vilna. "Ershter Idisher Folks Teatr in Lite fun N. Lipovski."

- "Doktor Zeyfnbloz" in Kaunas. "Ershter Idisher Folks Teatr in Lite fun N. Lipovski." Directed by R. Wendorff.

- "Madam fraylin" in Vilna. Yidishe Trupe of Moyshe Karpinowicz. Featuring Nekhama, Kadish, and Khash (Chasz).

- "Khatskele kol'boynik," 3 items. In Kaunas [?], "Ershter Idisher Folks Teatr fun N. Lipovski," directed by Wendorff. In Łódź. In Vilna, Yidishe Trupe of Moyshe Karpinowicz, directed by and starring Khash (Jozef Chasz).

- "Młoda kobietka" (Dos yunge vaybl) in an unspecified locality in Poland. Theater director, K. M. Ebel.

Title page in Russian. Includes sketches of the stage layout (no. 166661). Russian censor's stamp, St. Petersburg, 17 June 1914, and stamp for tax 23 May 1914 (title page), as well as remnant of red wax seal (last page). Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Accession no. 472/3733 (stamp).

Contains 4 acts. Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Accession no. 471/3732 (stamp). No author name appears on the title page. This play was originally stored together in the same YIVO Vilna four-flap folder as Boymvol's play "Di fir farlibte," in Folder 4076; however, on the Theater Museum label, it is listed separately, with no author name.

Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Accession no. 389/3650 (stamp).

Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Title/author information on title page is in Russian characters. Accession no. 399/3660 (stamp).

The name "Borodow" occurs several times among scribbled notes on the inside front cover. Accession no. 397/3658 (stamp).

Music by Weinberg. Russian censor's stamp, St. Petersburg, 9 October 1913, and stamp for tax, 29 September 1913 (title page), as well as red wax seal (last page). Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917, and Yiddish-language stamp of N. Lipovski as administrator, "Idishe truppe," and honorary member of the Russian Imperial Dramatic Association ("keyzerlikher dramatisher fareyn"). Accession no. 385/3646 (stamp).

Boymvol's free adaptation of Eduard Jacobson's German-language farce Ein gemachter Mann, based on the Yiddish translation by Zylbercweig (Zylbercweig I: 149).

Signed on title page by A. Gartsmann, in Russian. Cover has Russian-language labeling from an unidentified theater library. Accession no. 60/2308 (stamp). Original folder no. 4079.

Music by Samuel Weinberg. A note in German states that the music was composed in 8 days (verso of title page). Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Accession no. 395/3656 (stamp). Incomplete, breaking off just after the beginning of Act IV. Original folder no. 4086.