Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre

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The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919 – December 2003), a Soviet-Ukrainian-Jewish-Canadian actress, playwright, and theatre director.

The first play was The Innkeeper.{{Cite web|url=http://jwa.org/thisweek/apr/21/1993/dora-wasserman|title = Yiddish theater impresario Dora Wasserman receives Order of Canada}}

Wasserman[http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=444 Dora Wasserman, The indefatigable founding director of Canada's only Yiddish theatre died at 84.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221191200/http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=444 |date=February 21, 2010 }} directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "the most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward",Jewish Women's Archive referring to a Yiddish newspaper.

The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world.