New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) More info: http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cb22a8633af4f71cdfbae4def&id=e35e27eae6&... In 1900, at a time when the city's total Jewish population was only around half a million, New York's Yiddish theaters sold about one million tickets. By the mid-1920s, the city's 14 Yiddish theater houses served some 300,000 families. Yiddish theater arrived in America at the start of mass immigration from Eastern Europe, and it quickly became the immigrant community's most beloved pastime. But as the New York Times explores in its review of our newest exhibition, the theater's legacy extended far beyond the community of the Lower East Side.<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/arts/design/new-yorks-yiddish-theater-explores-a-fractious-heritage-of-melodrama-and-musicals.html?_r=0> "A definite if wobbly line connects the Yiddish theater...to the giants of modern American entertainment," writes Joseph Berger in today's paper. "It traces a long road from the ghettos and shtetls to Broadway and Hollywood and the likes of Marlon Brando and Barbra Streisand." The gown Streisand wore in Funny Girl, profiles of Catskills comedians like Jerry Lewis and Jackie Mason, and photos of Frank Sinatra and Albert Einstein as enthusiastic audience members for the Yiddish theater - all on view in the gallery - tell a richer story of this culture's impact. New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway, a co-presentation of the Museum of the City of New York, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the National Yiddish Book Center, and the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene, runs through July 31. Plan your visit today!<http://mcny.org/yiddishtheater>