Hershel Zohn Papers, 1932-1975

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Hershel Zohn Papers, 1932-1975

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Theatre director and professor at New Mexico State University from 1950-1975. Thecollection contains academic and profession papers of Zohn, in addition to work by his students.

14 linear feet

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Archives and Special Collections Department. New Mexico State University.

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New Mexico State University. Dept. of Theatre Arts History

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Zohn, Hershel Archives

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Hershel Zohn was born in Russia in 1909. His family emigrated to the United States in 1922, when Zohn was fourteen years old. In Manhattan he discovered the theatre and worked as a play reader, senior researcher, and translator in the New York Public Library Theatre Collection. He acted with the Yiddish Art Theatre and the Federal Theatre in the 1930s. In 1940, Zohn directed his first play, an original, in Greenwich Village. He had more acting offers, but in 1941 was drafted and ser...

Southwest Theatre Conference (U.S.)

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Founded in 1948 as a non-profit organization to foster educational theatre in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Name changed to the Southwest Theatre Association. From the description of Records, 1953-1967, 1953-1955. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24015766 ...