Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre

Theater group

The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919 – December 2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, and theatre director.

The first play was The Innkeeper.^[1] Wasserman^[2] directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "the most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward",^[3] referring to a Yiddish newspaper.

The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world.

References

^ "Yiddish theater impresario Dora Wasserman receives Order of Canada".
^ Dora Wasserman, The indefatigable founding director of Canada's only Yiddish theatre died at 84. Archived February 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Jewish Women's Archive

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