Jewish Music & Theatre Online

Discover the research and performances that formed part of the AHRC-funded project 'Performing the Jewish Archive', and browse our online database of resources.

Highlights from the archive

Person

Josef Gottbeter

Organist/choirmaster at the Rostov-on-Don Choral Synagogue. Research interest of Dr Stephen Muir.

Poem manusript

A purimgeshichte

Manuscript of Jac Weinstein's Purim story in Yiddish 

Place

Spanish Synagogue, Prague

Built for Prague's Reform community (1868), along decorative Moorish lines. Venue of the Czech 'Out of the Shadows' Festival opening.

Person of the day

Helena Glancová

Czech theatre director who directed Jac Weinstein's tableau Mother Rachel and her children in Prague, 2016

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