The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919– December 2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, and theatre director.
The first play was The Innkeeper.[1] Wasserman[2] directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "The most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward",[3] referring to a Yiddish newspaper.
The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world.
See also
References
- ↑ "Yiddish theater impresario Dora Wasserman receives Order of Canada".
- ↑ Dora Wasserman, The indefatigable founding director of Canada's only Yiddish theatre died at 84. Archived February 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jewish Women's Archive
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External links
- Theatre Web site
- Jewish Theatre.com article on the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre
- Jewish Theatre.com obituary for Dora Wasserman
- Segal Centre for Performing Arts
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