Shor, A. (Anshel), 1871-1942

Localities: Buenos Aires, Łódź, Radom, Vilna, Warsaw

Guest appearances of Weissman and Shor, often featuring Weissman in a play written and/or directed by Shor. Also, promotional booklet and fliers for their tour. Plays performed include Shor's "Vayb un gelibte," as well as "Zayn yidish meydl," "Arestanke no. 49," and "Di tsebrokhene heym." One flier is for the film Shir Hashirim. 14 items.

Localities: New York, Piotrków Trybunalski, Vilna, Warsaw

Programs featuring Weissman, in productions directed by Shor; in two instances Shor is also a member of the cast. The plays include: "Zayn yidish meydl" by I. Lash; "Ven libe ruft," with music by Sholem Secunda, libretto by William Siegel, lyrics by Shor, and dances by Vladimir Krasnov; "Hoykhe fenster" by Moishe Richter, with music by Secunda; "Vayb un gelibte" by Shor, with music by Herman Wohl; and "Arestanke No. 49," adapted by Shor.

- "Die Amerikanerin" in Zamość, 1916. Troupe under the direction of S. Herszkowicz.

- "Die Amerikanerin oder Das Mädel aus Westen" in Kielce, 1915. Production of the Gesellschaft des Vereinigten Artisten des Lodzer Theaters. Directed by Ch. Polanski. Featuring actress Weissbrot.

- "Die erste Liebe" in Jarosław. Theater of K. M. Ebel of Lemberg. With Jacob Spiwakowski.

- "Pierwsza Miłość" (Ershte libe) in an unspecified locality in Poland, at Żydowski Teatr (director, B. Hart). Cast includes actors Weisbrot, D. Hart, Herszkowicz, Fränkel, and Goldstein; and actresses Goldstein, Leresku, Gross, and Kohl.

One item is a photo of Shor, with the stamp of the E. R. Kaminska Theater Museum.

The other item, mistakenly filed here, is a proof copy of a photo of the Yiddish theater pioneer Isaac Lebrescu (Librescu); photo by E. O. Hoppé. (The same photo of Lebrescu appears in his entry in Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun yidishn teater, II: 1042.)

2 items.

Scrapbook, apparently kept by Shor himself, of a serialized memoir, "Fun Lemberg biz Filadelfya"; and a typescript of the same memoir (68 pp.), including an introduction by A. Frumkin. The clippngs are dated 16 April to 2 July 1933; on the last page of the scrapbook is an inscription from Shor to the YIVO Institute in Vilna. The installments represented appear to be incomplete, since the last one refers to a continuation to come. According to Zylbercweig (IV: 2918), the memoir was published in the Philadelphia newspaper Idishe velt, in 1933-1934. 2 items.

Russian-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski Theater, 6 February 1917. Signed on the last page of the play proper (stamped no. 174074) as copied for director ("direktsye") Lipovski, with the initials Z. P. Following the end of the play are some song lyrics (no. 174075-174076) and a revised section for Act IV (no. 174077). Accession no. 338/3599 (stamp). See also: another partial manuscript of the same play, in YIVO's digitized collection RG 8000 (held in the Lithuanian Central State Archives), Shipping List 8, Folder 93, with a title page that gives Anshel Shor as the author.

Fragment from near the end of the play (Act IV), with characters Sem, Peni, Gosi, and Mr. Grinfeld. 1 leaf.

Russian censor's stamp, St. Petersburg, 16 January 1912, and stamp for tax (title page), as well as red wax seal (last page). Yiddish-language stamp of N. S. Lipovski as administrator, "Idisher folks-teater." Accession no. 1/1191 (stamp).

German translation, adapted (bearbeitet) by L. Saslawsky, based on the Yiddish-language play "A mentsh zol men zayn," which, according to Zylbercweig (IV: 2653-2654, 2909-2910), was written by Anshel Shor together with Moshe Schorr. The title page of the manuscript gives only the last name "Shor."