Moskauer Theater Habima. Gründer und Direktor Nahum Zemach. Tournee Europa Amerika (Moscow Theater Habima. Founder and Director Nahum Zemach)

Moscow: Moskau Theater Habima, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good condition. Quarto. 68pp. Original tan wraps with brown lettering on cover. Title page with Habima symbol on title page. Founder and director Nahum Zemach. Tournee Europe-America. Director Michel Kachouk. Frontispiece photograph of Nahum Zemach.

With listing of repertoire, authors, directors, set designers, composers and artists. Director of set design I. Rubinstein, and musical director G. Kompanetz. Contains thumbnail photographs of the Habima staff, including K. Stanislawski, E. Wachtangow, N. Altmann, R. Falk, J. Engel, A. Krein and G. Kompaneetz, and the actors involved and two photographs of the Tour-Directors M. Kachouk and M. Geffen as well as the set design for the play "Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew)" by G. Jakulow.

The pamphlet contains a contribution on the history of the Habima, its intellectual roots and their implementations by Samuel Margolin as well as text contributions for each play performed on this tour, including casts and description of the plots. The plays included in this tour are "Dybuk" by S. Ansky, "The Eternal Jew" by David Pinski, "Golem" by G. Leiwik, "Jacob's Dream" by Richard Beer-Hofmann, "Deluge" by Berger. The text by Samuel Margolin and the descriptions of the plays are profusely illustrated with b/w photographs of scenes from the plays included in this tour. Contains three pages with press reviews at rear.

Text in German. Wraps with light wear along edges, some chips at spine and lightly rubbed and foxed. Brief ink and pencil notes on title page. Some light foxing in margins throughout, not affecting images.