The Storm of Life, by Leon Kobrin

"THE STORM OF LIFE"
(Yiddish: Der shturm fun leben)

Boris Thomashefsky opened the 1910-11 season on 16 Sep 1910 at his People's Theatre in Lower Manhattan with the Leon Kobrin play, "The Storm of Life."

The cast of this production included (in alphabetical order): Bina Abramowitz, Leon Blank, Bella Gudinska, Jacob Hochstein, Samuel Rosenstein, Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky, and Rebecca (Rivka) and Sigmund Weintraub.

LEON KOBRIN READING HIS PLAY, "THE STORM OF LIFE," TO THOMASHEFSKY'S COMPANY

circa September 1910
People's Theatre
New York, New York

Pictured, L. to R.: Samuel Rosenstein, Bella Gudinska, Boris Thomashefsky, Jacob Hochstein, Leon Kobrin,
Bessie Thomashefsky, Leon Blank, Sigmund Weintraub, Rebecca Weintraub and Bina Abramowitz.

Museum URL: www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/moyt/main.htm. Museum e-mail address: yiddishtheatre@museumoffamilyhistory.com.

The Museum of the Yiddish Theatre is a division of the Museum of Family History.

Photograph from Zylbercweig's "Album of the Yiddish Theatre." Courtesy of the estate of Zalmen Zylbercweig.