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May Day '13, strikers in Union Square (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • mk30 said:
    does anyone have translations of the hebrew or italian signs?
  • red1pix said:
    The Italian sign on the left is a demand for a trade union closed shop. Literally: "We ask that the shops are occupied only by unionists." The signs with Hebrew letters are likely to be in Yiddish - that was the language of Eastern European Jewish immigrants to the US. Yiddish is written in Hebrew letters, in the same way that English is written in "Roman" letters. The one on the left has an English message on its other visible side which looks like it is probably something along the lines of "We demand closed shops and open doors", judging by the message on the Italian sign.
  • red1pix said:
    This is a lovely set of pics - big thanks to the Library of Congress for putting them up here. But I'd have thought the LoC might have access to some translation service or researchers with language skills... it's a pity if it doesn't.
  • red1pix said:
    I think the other Italian sign might be something like: "Down with the spies and those who have sold out to the bosses/been bought by the bosses." But it would be good to hear from someone who actually speaks Italian...
  • red1pix said:
    OK, last guess for today: the Yiddish sign at the back could well be calling for an eight-hour day. That would be the likeliest reason for a big number 8 on a strikers' placard in 1913. Come on Yiddish and Italian speakers - we need you! And a happy May Day 2009 to workers of all countries and languages!

Molly Picon (center right) on tour in A Majority of One, 1964-1965

from Center for Jewish History, NYC

  • Center for Jewish History, NYC said:
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Molly Picon, Sidney Goldin (second right), and Jacob Kalich (far right) in Mezrach und Maarev, 1921

from Center for Jewish History, NYC

  • Center for Jewish History, NYC said:
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  • Jonas_Reis said:
    the man on the left side must be one of the actors mentioned here, I guess: www.stummfilm.at/content/view/252/111 So it could be: Eugen Neufeld (Uncle of Rubens), Simon Nathan (Motti Brauner), Salomon Zucker (Schabse) or even Eugen Preiss (Mensche) himself, who plays in the movie as well as Sidney Goldin... Except of Eugen Neufeld and Eugen Preiss, the actors must be of the same yiddish theatre group in whitch also Picon and Kalich are members - because they came as a team to vienna to act in the movie...
  • Jonas_Reis said:
    So, now I got it: The person on the very left must be Saul Nathan (according to J. Hoberman, "Bridge of Light", Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1995, page 57 (description) and 58 (the same photo as shown above) :) with best regards...