{"id":3084,"date":"2021-05-04T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T13:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3084"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:03:54","slug":"greenbaum-avrom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/?page_id=3084","title":{"rendered":"Greenbaum, Avrom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Avrom Greenbaum (1903-1963) was actor-manager of the Jewish Institute (later Avrom Greenbaum) Players. The amateur group was formed in 1936 in the Jewish Institute at South Portland Street, Glasgow. Greenbaum helmed this first all-Jewish drama group in Scotland as playwright, actor and producer.  The group focused on productions that engaged with Jewish identity, for instance featuring the folk drama <em>The Dybbuk <\/em>performed as part of the 1951 Festival of Jewish Arts. Beyond that, they concentrated on working-class themes, staging plays by Sean O\u2019Casey, Maxim Gorki and Clifford Odets). After the death of their founder Greenbaum in 1963, the Avrom Greenbaum Players remained active into the 1980s. A collection of material on Greenbaum and the Jewish Institute Players, Glasgow, and their theatre, called Bloch Little Theatre, is held by the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan D. Slater, &#8220;The Glasgow Jewish Institute Players&#8221; <em>Jewish Quarterly <\/em>4.2 (1956): 35-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deborah Butcher, &#8220;Scoping the collections: The Avrom Greenbaum Players&#8221;, Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces. Jewish Migration to Scotland, 1880-1950.http:\/\/jewishmigrationtoscotland.is.ed.ac.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avrom Greenbaum (1903-1963) was actor-manager of the Jewish Institute (later Avrom Greenbaum) Players. The amateur group was formed in 1936 in the Jewish Institute at South Portland Street, Glasgow. Greenbaum helmed this first all-Jewish drama group in Scotland as playwright, actor and producer. The group focused on productions that engaged with Jewish identity, for instance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":563,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3084","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3084\/revisions\/3088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishjewishtheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}