Etta Weiner
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Brief Description: The collection relates to Etta Weiner's Yiddish cultural activities in Texas.  Includes over 15 playscripts of mostly humorous skits, written, adapted, translated, and transliterated from Yiddish to English by Weiner and other writers.  Among the more well-known of the writers represented here are Der Tunkeler (Yoysef Tunkel) and Sholem Aleichem.  Also includes Yiddish language exercises, poetry, and newspaper clippings from the Morgn frayhayt, 1953-1972.
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YIVO Online Guide
Record Series Number: RG 1946/RG 1946
Volume: 0.0
Subject Index
Jewish humor
Literature
Plays
Playscripts
Press, Jewish
Theater
United States
Writers
Yiddish
Yiddish cultural activism
Yiddish language
Yiddish Language and Linguistics
Yiddish poetry
Yiddish secular movement
Languages of Materials
English
Yiddish
Acquisition Notes: The National Yiddish Book Center
Finding Aid Revisions: 2012/12/07 ; RCS
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