The Moscow State Yiddish Theater (MSYT) collection at the Blavatnik Archive Foundation (BAF) is now fully cataloged and accessible online

The Moscow State Yiddish Theater (MSYT) collection at the Blavatnik Archive Foundation (BAF) is now fully cataloged and accessible online at http://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collection/2 

 

The collection is an important resource on the history of GOSET (the theater’s Russian acronym) and Soviet Yiddish culture. Comprising 581 items from the family archive of actors and troupe members Iustina Minkova and Solomon Zil’berblat, the holdings date mostly from the 1920s and 1930s and include photographs, playbills, posters, letters, and more, in Russian, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Hebrew, German, and French.