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Yiddish Theater in Europe The Minchener Jidiszer Kleinkunst Teater (MIKT) troupe Rakhi Berman and Rokhl
Antupitska For the most part, those who
were living in the displaced persons (DP) camps after the end of World War
II were in need of whatever might lift up their spirits. The Cultural
Office of the "Central Committee for Released Jews" organized readings and
evenings of songs for them and brought in films for all to watch. They
also brought in Yiddish theater groups to entertain. Many of those who had
worked in the creative arts before World War II had already gone on to
make their contributions to Jewish culture outside of Europe. They had
immigrated to other countries in the decades preceding the war and had
made careers for themselves. However, not every Jewish writer or actor did
so, and a great many of those who remained in Europe at the onset of World
War II died during the war. After the war, for all intents and purposes,
new material for the Yiddish stage in Europe was no longer being
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