Memorial High School Roxbury benefit poster for Yiddish folk comedy – Vintage Poster Wall Art
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Memorial High School Roxbury benefit poster for Yiddish folk comedy comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Memorial High School Roxbury benefit poster for Yiddish folk comedy
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A benefit performance at Memorial High School in Roxbury gives this poster its particular character: a school auditorium doubled as a theater for a Yiddish folk comedy. Yiddish theater arrived in Boston with Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the decades around 1900, and troupes often staged comedies drawn from village life to raise money for local schools, synagogues and charities. Posters of this kind were typically printed in bright color to catch the eye on a street corner or from a streetcar window. The mix of an English school name with Yiddish theatrical billing shows how immigrant cultural life was woven into the neighborhood's public institutions.
| Original scan | 1,500 × 2,245 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8b |
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