David Pinski papers 1913-1926

Consists of manuscript and typeset versions of two plays by Pinski: "Bergsteiger" (1913) and "It Would Have Been Better Had You Not Been Born" (1916). These were sent to Isaac Goldberg of Brookline for unspecified reasonsGift of Dr. and Mrs. Allan Kliman, in memory of Edward I and Bernice Goldberg Stei

David Pinsky 1893-1949

Correspondence with approximately 1,350 individuals and organizations. Family correspondence. Letters from individuals including S. An-Ski, Baal Makhshoves, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Nathan Birnbaum, Ber Borochov, Jacob Dinesohn, Saul Ginsburg, Jacob Glatstein, Peretz Hirschbein, David Ignatoff, Joseph Jaffe, David Kessler, Judah L. Magnes, Golda Meirson, Nahum Baruch Minkoff, Shmuel Niger, Moshe Olgin, Joseph Opatoshu, Isaac Leib Peretz, Abraham Reisen, Joseph Schlossberg, Sholem Aleichem, Mordecai Spector, Nachman Syrkin, Baruch Vladeck, Chaim Weizmann, Hillel Zeitlin, Zerubavel, Chaim Zhitlowsky. Correspondence with Yiddish organizations. Correspondence with the Jewish National Workers Alliance, 1916-1942, including the main office and branches in the U.S. and Canada as well as with its affiliated Yiddish schools. Correspondence with the Poalei Zion party in the United States and Canada, 1914-1947; Palestine, 1924-1937; Poland, 1936. Correspondence of the party's press organs, *Der yidisher arbeiter*, 1923-1926; *Yidisher kemfer*, 1931-1933; and *Di tsayt*, 1921-1922. Letters from affiliated organizations such as Hehalutz, Pioneer Women, League for Labor Palestine. Manuscripts of novels, plays, poems, essays, and articles. Personal documents and photographs.Inventory, Yiddish, 87 pp., ms.LabeledYiddish writer, playwright, essayist, translator, editor. An associate of Isaac Leib Peretz at the outset of his literary career. Together with Peretz edited the popular magazine *Yom-tov bletlekh*, Warsaw, 1890s. Editor of socialist and zionist-socialist periodicals and newspapers in the U.S., including *Dos abend blatt*, *Der arbayter*, *Yidisher kemfer*, *Di tsayt*, *Zukunft*. Active in Jewish political life, first as a Zionist, then as a member of the Socialist Bund, and from 1916 was a prominent leader of the Poalei Zion (Labor Zionist) movement. President of the Jewish National Workers' Alliance (Farband). First president of the Yiddish Pen Club. Co-founder of other Yiddish cultural institutions. Born in Mohilev, Byelorussia. Lived in Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, New York, Tel-Aviv

Three plays ,

Isaac Sheftel.--The last Jew.--The dumb Messiah.Mode of access: Internet

"The treasure" by David Pinsky, directed by Adolph Freeman

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "The Treasure" at the Musart Theatre, 1320 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles, Calif., with performances in Yiddish and English; some text in Yiddish.Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress)

"The tailor becomes a storekeeper" A grotesque comedy by David Pinski : Daly's Theatre.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "The Tailor Becomes a Storekeeper" at Daly's Theatre, 63rd Street east of Broadway, New York City, showing a hand holding a fish being cut in half with sissors.Date stamped on verso: Apr 9 1938.Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 9

Six plays of the Yiddish theatre,

D. Pinski: Abigall, Forgotten souls.--S.J. Rabinowitsch: She must marry a doctor.--S. Ash: Winter, The sinner.--P. Hirachbein: In the dark.Mode of access: Internet