Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre

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

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

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  1. ↑ http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/21/1993/dora-wasserman
  2. ↑ Dora Wasserman, The indefatigable founding director of Canada's only Yiddish theatre died at 84.
  3. ↑ Jewish Women's Archive

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