Seymour Rechtzeit. An important primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project, Rechtzeit was a famous Yiddish theater performe and radio host, as well as the founder of Banner Records.

Seymour Rechtzeit. At the piano.

Seymour Rechtzeit.

Seymour Rechtzeit.

Seymour Rechtzeit and Miriam Kressyn. Both were well known performers in the celebrated "heyday" of the American Yiddish theater.

Freydele Oysher. Internationally known Yiddish theater performer and primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project.

Harold Sternberg. A primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project, Sternberg was a Yiddish theater performer.

Harold Sternberg.

Freydele Oysher.

Harold Sternberg and Freydele Oysher.

Freydele Oysher.

Musicologist Chana Mlotek (left) with son Zalmen and husband Joseph (Yosl). An expert on Yiddish song, Chana Mlotek serves as the music archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York. Zalmen is heavily involved with contemporary Yiddish theater, and was a key consultant in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project.

Mina Bern. Amongst the most celebrated performers in Second Avenue's "heyday," Bern was a primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project.

Mina Bern.

Mina Bern.

Lillian Lux. Former Yiddish theater performer and primary resource in the Milken Archive's Yiddish theater project. Lux's son, Mike Burstyn, is also an accomplished performer in the contemporary Yiddish theater scene.

Lillian Lux.

Robert Merrill. A famous opera singer in the late 20th century, Merrill sang occasionally in Yiddish vaudeville shows and in the Catskill Mountains.

David Krakauer. Bebelplatz monument. Berlin, Germany. The monument marks the site of the May 10, 1933 Nazi book burning.

David Krakauer. Milken Archive recording session with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Berlin, Germany. Krakauer is a renowned klezmer clarinetist and advocate of new Jewish music.