TheDora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of theSegal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 byDora Wasserman (1919–2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, andtheatre director.
The first play wasThe Innkeeper.[1]Wasserman[2] directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "the most successful of these wasA Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column ofthe Jewish Daily Forward",[3] referring to aYiddish newspaper.
The Dora Wasserman is one ofthe few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world.
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