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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1992-006", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21798", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1925-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1925/1993"}
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1925
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1993
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1925
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{"value"=>"Joseph Buloff papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Billy Rose Theatre Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Joseph Buloff was a stage actor. His collection consists of works by Yiddish and Russian writers, his adaptations into English, correspondence, photographs, reviews, publicity and notes."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p> Joseph Buloff Papers, *T-Mss 1992-006. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Buloff, Joseph", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Joseph Buloff was born in 1899. The careers of Buloff, leading actor of Vilnia Troupe, and his wife, Luba Kadison, leading actress and the daughter of the founder of the Vilnia Troupe in Poland, Leib Kadison, were among the most extensive in the history of Yiddish theater.</p> <p>Actor Joseph Buloff left his native Eastern Europe in 1926 and came to the U.S. when he was invited to join Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theater. By the mid 1930s he was performing in English as well. He appeared in over 225 Yiddish plays before 1936 when he made his Broadway debut. He created the character of Ali Hakim, the Persian peddler, in the original Broadway production of <span class=\"title\">Oklahoma</span> and directed <span class=\"title\">Mr. McThing</span> on Broadway. Buloff was particularly famous for his interpretation of Chekhov’s <span class=\"title\">Di Mahashefah</span> (<span class=\"title\">The Witch</span>), which he even performed in Johannesburg in 1950. He made his film debut in 1940 in <span class=\"title\">Let’s Make Music</span>.</p> <p>Luba Kadison (December 13, 1906 - May 4, 2006) was born in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania (at that time part of the Russian empire). She toured with Vilnia Theatre Kovno, Bialystock and Grodno and as a young girl was often cast in boys' roles.</p> <p>In 1949, Luba and Joseph obtained the Yiddish rights for Arthur Miller's <span class=\"title\">Death of a Salesman</span> and took it to Buenos Aires, where there was a vibrant Yiddish-speaking community. The Peronist government banned money exchanges, and the Buloffs returned to New York having made a loss. However, the New York Yiddish version was an artistic and financial success. George Gross, in the magazine <span class=\"title\">Commentary</span>, wrote that \"the Yiddish play is really the original and the Broadway production was merely Miller's translation into English!\" After the war, the New York Yiddish theater declined. Yiddish actors were either absorbed into American theater or retired. Luba, who felt limited by her accent, worked very little. When Joseph Buloff died in 1985, Luba donated his archive to the Harvard College library. She also worked on getting his book, <span class=\"title\">From the Old Marketplace</span>, published, and regretted that Joe did not see this happen during his lifetime. Her memoirs, <span class=\"title\">On Stage, Off Stage</span>, written in collaboration with Buloff, won the 1994 National Book Award.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> The Joseph Buloff papers contain scripts, photographs, programs, flyers, reviews, contracts and notes. The scripts include many of the popular plays in which Buloff performed, as well as English adaptations of the Yiddish classics of Scholem Aleichem’s <span class=\"title\">The Crabby Crawler</span>, <span class=\"title\">Eternal Life</span>, <span class=\"title\">Tevye and His Seven Daughters</span>; <span class=\"title\">God Wiil Provide</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Mad Batlan</span>, <span class=\"title\">Temptation</span> by I. Peretz, <span class=\"title\">Chains</span> by H.Levick, <span class=\"title\">The Singer of His Sorrow</span> by O. Dymov, and <span class=\"title\">The Kibitzer</span> by J.Swerling. The scripts include a number of works adapted and translated from world literature, by authors such as Chekhov and Gogol. The collection includes manuscripts and drafts of Buloff’s work, <span class=\"title\">Beggar in Paradise</span>, based on <span class=\"title\">Lame Fishke</span> by Mendele Mohker Sforim. There is also \"My Conception of the Part of Linda in Arthur Miller’s <span class=\"title\">Death of a Salesman</span>\" by Luba Kadison and her Autobiography.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Joseph Buloff papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21798#c477148'>Series I: Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1929-1984, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series consists of drafts and notes for Buloff’s book Beggar in Paradise, English adaptations and works of the Yiddish classics of Scholem Aleichem, Peretz, Levick, and Dymov; a number of adapted and translated from world literature, by authors such as Chekhov and Gogol.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21798#c477189'>Series II: Professional Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1925-1993</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series includes correspondence, photographs, programs, publicity material and review articles. There is also My Conception of the Part of Linda in Arthur Miller’s <span class=\"title\">Death of a Salesman</span>” by Luba Kadison and her Autobiography.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21798#c477210'>Series III: Oversized Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1967</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series includes one theatrical poster (in Yiddish)</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized into three series. They are: <ul> <li>Series I: Writings, 1924-1984, undated</li> <li>Series II: Professional Papers, 1925-1993</li> <li>Series III: Oversized Material, 1967</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p> The Joseph Buloff Papers were donated to the Billy Rose Theatre Division in 1992 by Mrs. Luba Kadison Buloff.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Judaica Division, Widener Library, Harvard University</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection incorporates material that previously was cataloged as Papers, 1929-1991 (former call number, 8MWEZ28779-782)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- langmaterial_code
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eng
yid
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{"value"=>"The Writings series contains scripts in both English and Yiddish"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Liavon Yurevich; Machine-readable finding aid created by Liavon Yurevich.</p>"}
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2.75 linear feet (6 boxes)
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1925
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1993