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Description: | This poster shows the Yiddish actor Joseph Kessler (1881-1933), with 4 vignettes of him in Shakespearean roles. Kessler was born in Hungary, and at the age of 10 he travelled with his parents to America, where he joined an amateur dramatic club and decided to become a professional actor. In 1911 he appeared in London at the Paragon Theatre, where he soon took over the management, in partnership with Dinah Feinman. In 1913 Kessler replaced Maurice Moscovitch as director of the Pavilion Theatre and he made frequent appearances at the Pavilion until the late 1920s. He specialised in Shakespeare's tragic roles, especially Hamlet, and also staged many of the literary classics of the Yiddish repertoire. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Jewish Museum, London | Rights holder: | With permission of the copyright owner / Copyright owner unknown. | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities Leisure | Temporal: | 1913-1925 | Source: | Jewish Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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