Uriel Acosta (a tragedy) presented in 1846 by Karl Gutzkow and performed at the State Jewish Theater of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kyiv, presumably in 1929.

   A scene from the play Uriel Acosta (a blank verse tragedy) presented in 1846 by the German playwright Karl Gutzkow (1811-1878) and performed at the State Jewish Theater of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kyiv, presumably in 1929.

   Sholom Aleichem Kyiv State Jewish Theatre (Kyiv GOSET), which was active in 1929–1950 and became a significant cultural element of the Jewish community life. GOSET is an acronym for a Jewish state theatre in the Soviet Union (Russian: Gosudarstviennyi yevreiskii teatr). In 1950, during the Stalinist antisemitic campaign of “fighting cosmopolitism”, all Jewish theatres in the country were closed. 

Hand-written Yiddish script of GOSET’s production of “Uriel Acosta” by Karl Gutzkow. GOSET produced the play twice: in Petrograd (July 1919) and Moscow (April 1922), directed by Aleksei Granovskii, starring Solomon Mikhoels. This script was used by Iustina Minkova, who played (?).