Etta Weiner

Title: Etta Weiner

Inclusive Dates: 1953-1972

ID: RG 1946

Etta Weiner was a Yiddish cultural activist in Texas who was fluent in Yiddish. She wrote several Yiddish language playscripts in Yiddish and in English. She also translated some of these works from Yiddish to English. In addition, she may have taught Yiddish language classes.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

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

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Acquisition Note: The National Yiddish Book Center

Collection Material Type: Personal Papers

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.