Samuel Bak

The Big Lottery (Amk'ho / 200 000) - Costume Design XXXVIII

   
The Big Lottery (Amk'ho / 200 000) - Costume Design XXXVIII
  • 1964, in Israel
  • Gouache on paper
  • 13 34 × 19 58 inches(35 × 50 cm)

  • Signed and dated lower right: BAK 64, lower center character names and act in Hebrew

    ["The Big Lottery", original Yiddish title "Dos groyse gevins", written by Sholem Aleichem in 1915/1916, performed at the Ohel Theatre in Tel Aviv and Freie Volksbühne Berlin in 1964-1965.
    In Tel Aviv titled in Hebrew "Amk'ho" (meaning "the common people", also an expression used as a secret code for Jewish refugees). In Berlin titled "200 000".]

Literature

Pintado en palabras . Una memoria Samuel Bak 2018 Boston, MA / Houston

Nutapyta žodžiais: Vilniaus prisiminimai / Painted in Words: Memories of Vilna Samuel Bak 2009 Vilna, ill.

In Worte gemalt Samuel Bak 2007 Weinheim/Basel, ill.

Painted in Words - A Memoir Samuel Bak 2001 Boston, MA, ill. [middle drawing]

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