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The King of Lampedusa - A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Sunday 14 December 2003 at 2.30pm
The King of Lampedusa - A 60th Anniversary celebration
of the most famous Yiddish play that ran in Whitechapel for seven months in 1943/4

Talk by Heather Valencia with anecdotes from Anna Tzelniker, who played in the original production.

Video by Arnold Schwartzman

Special guests: actor Warren Mitchell, Flight Lieutenant Les Wright who flew with Pilot Sidney Cohen in the plane that crash-landed on the island of Lampedusa in 1943, and also the sons and daughters of the Yiddish Theatre Company personnel.

Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

JMI International Forum for Yiddish Culture in association with JEECS

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