Schweid, Mark, 1891-1969

This collection consists of typescripts and manuscripts of Yiddish radio plays written by Yiddish actor and director Mark Schweid (1891-1969). Also includes There are also four items of ephemera related to the Bronx Art Theatre.

Programs for the 1930/31 season, under director Mark Schweid. Includes items related to the plays "Elektrik tsher" (Electric Chair) by Sholem Asch, "Got's ganovim" by Chone Gottesfeld, "A nakht in Yehupets" by Sholem Aleichem, and "Natalka Poltavka" by Ivan Kotliarevsky. Also includes a letter from Schweid to potential supporters, September 1930. The theater was located at 2135 Boston Road.

Clipping. 1 item.

This subseries comprises approximately 1,000 oversize posters stored in map drawers. In Jonas Turkow's arrangement and cataloging of the items in the collection, oversize posters were fully integrated with the playbills found in Subseries 3; the item numbers they received fall within the same sequence as those of the playbills. Both types of items were categorized under the Yiddish heading "afishn" (posters, playbills; related to the French: affiche). The arrangement of the posters, therefore, mirrors that of the playbills in Subseries 3, with correponding folder titles and numbers (the folders containing posters are distinguished with the addition of a suffix "P" to the folder number).