Talk:Hebrew Actors' Union

Founding date
Several sites give founding dates of 1884 or 1887. 1884 is absurd: Yiddish theater in America was two years old at that time, and nearly amateur. I suspect that some prominent site got this wrong and others have been propagating it. 1887 is just barely imaginable, but most of the most reliable sources I've seen, including Lulla Rosenfeld's commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir, give 1899, which would make it just slightly before other actors began to unionize. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:15, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

The website of the Screen Actors Guild says 1899. "1899: Hebrew Actors Union founded by Jewish labor leader Joseph Barondess" SOURCE: http://www.sag.org/history/chronos_pages/pre_guild.html

>> Arieh Lebowitz, Communications Director & Program Associate, Jewish Labor Committee

P.S. I am the fellow who did all of the updates tonight. - —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.24.208 (talk • contribs) 17 Oct 2007

Another source worth consulting
Andrew Jacobs, "The Last Act", New York Times, p. CY3, December 8, 1996. Something of an elegy for Yiddish theater and for the union in its last days. This, by the way, says it was founded in 1887, and the NYT is pretty citable, so I will add that (but the article could be mined for a lot more). - Jmabel | Talk 19:05, 7 November 2008 (UTC)