Bessie Thomashefsky

This past week the SF Symphony has been performing "The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater" -- a wonderful music, multi-media presentation of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky and the Yiddish Theater in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Amazing to me was the feminist stance of much of the work Bessie T. did -- her newspaper articles, her songs, her beliefs about women's suffrage and birth control, her trouser roles. I particularly liked several of the songs -- and will try to recreate them here. Here's what the SF Chron had to say. Stay tuned...