A 3 act Yiddish folk comedy Dus groise Gevins (The 200000) by Sholem Aleichem – Historic Poster Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A 3 act Yiddish folk comedy Dus groise Gevins (The 200000) by Sholem Aleichem comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A 3 act Yiddish folk comedy Dus groise Gevins (The 200000) by Sholem Aleichem
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The lottery prize at the center of this 1938 poster, "Dus groise Gevins" (rendered here as "The 200000"), is the fortune that drives this three-act Yiddish folk comedy by Sholem Aleichem, the writer whose stories of Eastern European Jewish life, from the shtetl to the city, made him one of the great Yiddish authors. He died in 1916, and his work was still widely staged in the 1930s. The production was sponsored by the Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that employed theater workers during the Depression, and this show was presented in Boston as a benefit for the Boston Bicker Cholim Association, a Jewish mutual aid society that visited the sick. The poster's subject tags mention sewing, a reminder of how many immigrant Jewish families earned their living in the needle trades.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Benefit: Boston Bicker Cholim Association. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Sholem Aleichem 1859-1916. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Theatrical productions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Yiddish theater--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. Comedies--1930-1940. Sewing--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,793 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 375_A_3_act_Yiddish_folk_co_1938 |
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