{"id":1502,"date":"2018-12-10T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:37:43","slug":"the-green-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/yiddish-images\/the-green-maid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Maid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 PEOPLE\u2019S THEATRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

201 BOWERY.<\/p>\n

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EDELSTEIN & THOMASHEFSKY, LESSEES AND MANAGERS. ROSENTHAL, REGISSEUR.\u00a0\u00a0 FRIEDZEL, MUSICAL DIRECTOR.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Tuesday Evening the 7th of March, 1905<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Musical Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0And<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Composers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mr. Louis Friedsel<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 For a performance came your general desires<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Miss Thomashefsky\u2019s Success<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Green Maid<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rachel Weinstein, Madame Thomashevsky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Reb Shlomo the Joyful, Mr. Bernstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zlote, Madame Abramovitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Engelman, Mr. Meisel<\/strong><\/p>\n

Detective<\/b>, Mr. Tiplitsky<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jake Wilson, Mr. Kessler<\/strong><\/p>\n

Avraham Weinstein, Mr. Young<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rubin, Mr. Rosenstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

Helena, Madame Godinsky<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dik, Mr. Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcus Weinstein, Mr. Zuckerman<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Waiter, Mr. Abramovitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Pictured: Miss Thomashefsky as the Green Maid)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A Last Act<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A Big Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With Mr. Friedsel\u2019s own compositions, accomplished background orchestra, choir, and ensemble<\/p>\n

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Extra!\u00a0 \u00a0 The Young Daughter of Mr. Friedsel\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Extra!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ————<\/strong>Miss Dora Friedsel<\/strong>———–<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Students From The National Conservatory of Music <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Will Play\u00a0<\/strong>A Wonderful Concert on The Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tickets can be received at the box office at People\u2019s Theatre<\/p>\n

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Lipshitz Press, 180 Grand Street, New York<\/p>\n

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Image Source: Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library. “Di grine moyd” The New York Public Library Digital Collections<\/em>. 1905. http:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/items\/79cbc5d0-d1b1-0133-f5bc-00505686a51c<\/p>\n

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This picture is an advertisement for a play called \u201cThe Green Maid\u201d, followed by a large concert at people\u2019s Theatre in the Lower East side of Manhattan in 1905. This was a time when a lot of Yiddish speaking immigrants were immigrating to the Lower East Side from Europe. The Green Maid is a significant play because it probably portrays what life was like for immigrants coming to make it big in America. \u201cGreen\u201d was a common theme at the time in Yiddish theatre and literature, and was used to describe someone who was an immigrant. Although I couldn\u2019t find any information regarding this specific play, I can guess it is about an Yiddish immigrant who settled in America and worked as a maid to get by. Maid Thomashefsky (the main character) was played by Bessie Thomashefsky, who was born in Ukraine in 1873 and moved with her family to Baltimore when she was about ten (2). Upon her arrival, she only attended school for two years and then went to work in a sweatshop, going on to marry Boris Thomashefsky, a renowned Yiddish actor and one of the owners of People’s Theatre, thus creating for herself a successful career in Yiddish acting (2).<\/p>\n

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The common theme of financial hardship and backbreaking labor became the theme for many songs, poems, and plays. Another example of this theme is \u201cDi Grine Kuzine\u201d, where a person describes his\/her \u201cgreen\u201d cousin becoming worn out from hard work in America. In this poster, the title \u201cThe Green Maid\u201d seems to imply an immigrant woman who took upon herself a job as a maid. Conveniently located at 201 Bowery, People\u2019s Theatre was located on the Lower side of Manhattan, where many of the Yiddish speaking immigrants settled. The People\u2019s Theatre served the Yiddish community until the late 1920\u2019s, until it became a Chinese Playhouse in the 1930\u2019s (1). The area where People\u2019s Theatre was located was known as the Yiddish Theatre District, and it was the center of New York\u2019s Yiddish life in the 20th Century (1).<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/myny.ctl.columbia.edu\/content\/peoples-theater<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0https:\/\/jwa.org\/encyclopedia\/article\/Thomashefsky-Bessie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 PEOPLE\u2019S THEATRE 201 BOWERY. ______________________________________________________________________ EDELSTEIN & THOMASHEFSKY, LESSEES AND MANAGERS. ROSENTHAL, REGISSEUR.\u00a0\u00a0 FRIEDZEL, MUSICAL DIRECTOR.   \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Tuesday Evening the 7th of March, 1905 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To Honor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our Musical Songs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yiddish-images","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-oe","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}