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Abe Goldberg
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-6
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1982-7-6
- Material Format
- object
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 poster
- 3 cm of textual records
- Artifacts
- Date
- 1928-[ca. 1944]
- Scope and Content
- This accession includes a Standard Theatre poster for the play Sheindele from Slabodke, staring Mischa and Lucy German (1928). This production was also known as Papirosn-makherin (Cigarette Maker) and Reizele from Slabodke and was staged in 1927 in the Hopkinson Theatre then in Philadelphia with Clara Young, Lucy German, and Vera Rosanka.
- Also included are pages from a scrapbook with Jewish Standard editorial writings from the 1930s by Hye Bossin. Topics include life on Spadina Avenue and in Kensinton Market, Yiddish entertainers, Emma Goldman's visit to Toronto, Caplan's Cafe, athletes, and the Toronto Islands. As well, there is a metal plate for F. B. Harris, circa 1944, with an inscription on it in memory of Sgt. F. B. Harris who "died in his country's service 6 June, 1944."
- Descriptive Notes
- Availability of other formats: The Standard Theatre poster and Emma Goldman interview are available as digital files.
- Subjects
- Newspapers
- Theatrical posters, Yiddish
- Name Access
- Bossin, Hye
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
- Harris, Fred. B.
- Standard Theatre (Toronto, Ont.)
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions