The First Family of the Yiddish Theater

The first great family of Yiddish Theater was the Thomashefskys.  Their grandson, famed conductor Michael Tilson Thomas,  told Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky's story in a highly-regarded PBS Special in June 2013.                                                 
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The Museum of Yiddish Theater
Receives Charter from Regents

The Museum of Yiddish Theater received its Charter from Regents of the University of the State of New York on December 13, 2011.  The Founding Directors are actor Mike Burstyn; Michael Leavitt, President of the American Society for Jewish Music; Samuel Norich, Publisher of the Forward; the late Isaiah Sheffer, Co-Founder and long-time President of New York's Symphony Space; Bruce Slovin, the real estate developer and Founder of the Center for Jewish History and Chairman YIVO; and Linda Steinberg, Executive Director of The Thomashefsky Project.

Second Avenue Walk of Fame

Established by the famed Second Avenue Deli (at the corner of 10th Street), the Walk of Fame has plaques which include the names of some of the most famous stars of the Yiddish Theater, including Pesach Berstein and Lillian Lux, the parents of Mike Burstyn, today's most prominent actor in Yiddish Theater.        Read more. . . .

Hebrew Actors Union Building Located at 31 East 7th Street, New York City

Hebrew Actors Union Building

Founded in 1899, the Hebrew Actors Union, America's first theatrical union, set  the standard and the model for Actors Equity, as well as the  other theatrical unions  that followed.  Among its members were the luminaries of the Yiddish stage,           Read more . . . .

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