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Shma Yisrael
שמע ישראל
Play performed at Habima's opening.
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Source OCR · scan 118 · printed page 102
... די ,הבימה" ווערט געעפנט PNT נחום צמח מיט
דער פּיעסע ,שמע ישראל" פון אָסיפּ NDT
איבערזעצט PNR אידיש פון NOD קאַפּלאַן. ...Source passage 2
Source OCR · scan 574
... 1913 - The Habimah Theater is opened by Nochum
Cemach with the play Shma Yisroel by Ossip
Dymow, translated into Yiddish by Pejsach
Kaplan. ...Source passage 3
Source OCR · scan 593
... My memory conjures up the following picture: It was
a hot, beautiful day in Bialystok. I, a student of the
institute in St. Petersburg, had returned here on vaca-
tion to see my mother, brothers, sisters and friends.
Although still quite young, I had already written the
play Shma Yisroel. 1 was ambling down the lovely Li-
powa Street when a young man with cunning eyes and a
pointed black moustache stopped me. I didn’t know
him, never having seen him before, but apparently he
knew me: ...Connected nodes
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