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Description: | The Yiddish comedy play 'The King of Lampedusa' starred, from left to right: Max Baum, Joseph Sherman, Clara Meisels, Anna Tzelniker, Yidel Goldberg (as the lead), and Sam Goldberg. The play was based on a true wartime incident, involving RAF Flight Sergeant Sydney Cohen, a tailor's cutter from Clapton, who in 1943 made a forced landing on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa when his plane ran out of fuel. The Italian garrison surrendered and Cohen's crewmates gave him the nickname of 'The King of Lampedusa'. It opened in December 1943, and became the longest running and most successful Yiddish play in London with almost 200 performances. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | Copyright owner unknown. | Subjects: | Communities Leisure | Temporal: | 1944-01 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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