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    [Yiddish stage and screen actress Molly Picon, New York]

    Object Name
    165
    Dateca. late 1940s (printed 2012)
    Label Text

    Molly Picon (1898–1992), born on the Lower East Side of New York to Polish-Jewish immigrants, became the most famous Yiddish film and theater performer of all time. Regarded as the personification of Second Avenue’s “Yiddish Broadway,” she made her theater debut in 1912 and her film debut in 1921, during the course of a lengthy European tour that would make her a star in a legendary career that spanned more than seventy years.

    Medium
    Inkjet print
    Dimensions
    Image: 10 x 9 3/8 in. (25.4 x 23.9 cm)
    Location
    place taken New York, New York, United States
    Credit Line
    Roman Vishniac Archive
    Accession Number2012.80.54
    Copyright
    © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography

    For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.