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From the New York
Times, October 3, 1932:
“The story it unfolds is of a powerful
Chasidic rabbi, whose concerns are very much of this world. Having
already buried three wives, in his seventieth year he sets eyes on a
spirited young girl and determines to make her No. 4. To satisfy the
proprieties, however, he must first marry off his young daughter, a
child of 15, and he arranges a match between her and a boy who is so
deeply wrapped up in a Kabala that the marriage cruelly wounds him.
He in turn hurts his wife by his coldness, and she is too unknowing
to overcome it.
The girl whom the aged rabbi has married, however, is a spitfire:
she won’t have the old man, but she falls in love with his ascetic
son-in-law and makes him return her passion. When she dies in
childbirth, the youth turns to a life of wandering to expiate his
sin."
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Scenes from "Yoshe Kalb" |
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"CHASIDIM DISGUISED AS COSSACKS"
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"YOSHE KALB ACCUSED BEFORE THE BIALYGORER RABBI"
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"THE WEDDING ON THE CEMETERY OF YOSHE
KALB"
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"THE SYNHEDRIN COURT SCENE OF 'YOSHE
KALB'"
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Left
photo: Leah Naomi, Charlotte Goldstein and Roseta
Bailis.
Right photo: Liza Varon, Judith Abarbanel, S.
Gursky, Anna Appel. |
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more Yoshe Kalb actors
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Photos by M.
Goldberg. Courtesy of The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division
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