Jonas Turkow wrote:

"In Grodno in the year 1926 there was founded a small art theatre known as "Simkhevesosen (Simcha veshoshen), under the literary management and editor of the "Grodner Moment" -- Durl (David) Berezowski.

The major force that had been grouped around the local theatre were: Ana Lubitsh, Yenkele Lipinsky, the painter Yosef Pasmanik, who also acted with the others, and Yehuda Yatzevlan."

• Jonas Turkow -- "Farloshene shtern", Buenos Aires, 1953, Volume II, p. 131.