Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899 1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. In writing "The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin," his daughter, Ala Zuskin Perelman, has rescued from oblivion his story and that of the theater in which he served as performer and, for a period, artistic director. Against the backdrop of the Soviet regime s effort to stifle any expression of Jewish identity, the Moscow State Jewish Theater throughout its thirty years of existence (1919 49) maintained a high level of artistic excellence...
Described by theater critics as one of the twentieth century s greatest talents, Benjamin Zuskin (1899 1952) was a star of the Moscow State Jewish ...
