Announcement for Bar Giora Performance
Moriah Soirée
Bar Giora
A Play in Seven Acts
By: David Yellin
Adapted from Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell
(On the life of the Jews before the destruction of the Second Temple and their overthrowing of the Roman procurator)
Performed by the members of Moriah
Directed by Yitsḥak Lepsky
In the Lämel School auditorium
Jerusalem. 21 Adar I, 5668
Translated by Shaul Vardi.
Credits
Moriah Theater Company, announcement of “Bar-Giora," originally published as a public poster and advertisement in 1908.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.
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