Book details: IDISHER TEATER AGENTN....IDISHE FOLKSLIDER .AHASUERUS-SHPIL. IDU TEATRIS: AGENTI"....ZIDU TAUTAS DZIESMAS PURIM-SPELE [NR. 50]
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[Theater] [Sholem Aleichem]
IDISHER TEATER AGENTN....IDISHE FOLKSLIDER .AHASUERUS-SHPIL. IDU TEATRIS: AGENTI"....ZIDU TAUTAS DZIESMAS PURIM-SPELE [NR. 50]
Imprint: Riga: idu Teatris, 1940 Edition:
First Edition
Binding: broadsheet
1st edition. Original handbill (22.5 x 23 cm) folded once along vertical axis. In Yiddish and Latvian. Translates as, “Jewish Theater…. ‘The Agents,’ Jewish Folksongs….’Ahasuerus/Purim play.’”Broadside advertising the Purim program of Židu Teatris [Jewish Theater] including “Agents” by Sholem Aleichem, a performance of Jewish folk songs by Maras Žitlovskas and Nina Simonovics, and a “Purim play” directed by I. Ciser. The Soviet Union occupied Latvia in June 1940 and annexed the country in August 1940. In June and July 1941, following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Germans occupied Latvia. Very good Condition. (Latyid-2-6)