Rare Yiddish Manuscripts from Helsinki Performed Again
Digital Yiddish Theatre Project published PtJA postdoctoral researcher Simo Muir's blog about Yiddish theatre and cabaret in Helsinki.
Yiddish cabaret performance in Helsinki in 1926
In 2005, a room full of forgotten archival materials from the Jewish community of Helsinki was discovered in the cellar of a house in the center of the Finnish capital. I was then working as an archivist for the Jewish community of Helsinki at the National Archives of Finland, and was commissioned to do an inventory of the material. Among the dusty heaps of thousands of documents sat a tall pile of Yiddish theatre manuscripts from first half of the 20th century. As I had previously done some research about Yiddish theatre activity in Helsinki, and knew that nearly all manuscripts were thought to have been lost, I immediately understood the value of the find.
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