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Play: Blue Willow, undated, inclusive
Play: Budulinek, undated, inclusive
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After a Czech fairy tale.
Play: Cinderella, undated, inclusive
Play: Clever Gretel, undated, inclusive
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After the Brothers Grimm.
Play: [The Elves and the Shoemaker], undated, inclusive
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After the Brothers Grimm.
Play: Der Purim Ber [The Purim Bear] (Yiddish), undated, inclusive
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As indicated in the synopsis in folder 16, "The Purim Bear" is by Nekhamkin.
Play: Signora Lupa and the Figtree [sic], undated, inclusive
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After the story of the same title in The Truce of the Wolf and Other Tales of Old Italy by Mary Gould Davis (1931).
Play: The Singing Tree, undated, inclusive
Play: The Straw Ox, undated, inclusive
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After a Ukrainian folktale.
Play: The Talking Tree, undated, inclusive
Play: A Tramp and a Night's Lodging, undated, inclusive
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Written and published by Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy and described in Kate Oglebay's Plays for Children: A Selected List (1922).
Play: Vodnik, undated, inclusive
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After a Czech fairy tale.
Play: The Wonderful Pot, undated, inclusive
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After a Danish fairy tale.
Play: Untitled (1 of 2), undated, inclusive
Play: Untitled (2 of 2), undated, inclusive
Play synopses, undated, inclusive
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Outlines of "Purim Play" by L. Hoffman and "The Purim Bear" by Nekhamkin.
Poems / lyrics, undated, inclusive
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Three poems / lyrics in Yiddish (one untitled; one "Khanukah likght" by Morris Rosenfeld; one "Khanukah" by Abraham Reisen), and the lyrics with 10-bar musical notation for "Meister singer -- Night Watchman."
Story: The Devil and Tom Walker, undated, inclusive
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Typescript of Washington Irving's 1824 short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker."
Story: The dish of oil (a.k.a. A dish of oil), undated, inclusive
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A telling of the miracle of Hanukkah.
Story: The Fat of the Cat, undated, inclusive
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From The Fat of the Cat and Other Stories by Gottfried Keller, adapted by Louis Untermeyer (1925).
Story: The Hare and the Hedgehog, undated, inclusive
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After the Brothers Grimm.
Story: Molly Whuppie, undated, inclusive
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An English fairy tale set in Scotland and collected by Joseph Jacobs.
Story: Sarah-Bath-Tovin, undated, inclusive
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Typescript in English of a story by Yiddish languague author I. L. Peretz (1852-1915).
Story: The Tabernacle, undated, inclusive
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Typescript in English of a story by Yiddish language author Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916).
Story: Tweedles, undated, inclusive
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From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
Story: Why Jan Pendogget changed his mind, undated, inclusive
Story: Die Zwei Brider [The Two Brothers] (Yiddish), undated, inclusive
Story: Untitled, undated, inclusive
Miscellaneous: Illustrations (4), undated, inclusive
Miscellaneous: Invitation, Hamilton Fish Park Branch, New York Public Library, 20th anniversary, 1929 February 26
Miscellaneous: Japanese dish gardens, undated, inclusive
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Better Homes & Gardens leaflet no. B-A-7.
Miscellaneous: Letter copied from a newspaper, [1945 October 4], inclusive
Miscellaneous: Photographs (2), 1989, 1995, inclusive
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Two color photographs, one showing four elderly women—one of whom is presumably Beatrice Bernfeld—at a gathering (dated 1989), the other presumably showing Bernfeld reading to a young boy (dated Thanksgiving, 23 November 1995).
Miscellaneous: Ribbon, "S.S. Bergensfjord", circa 1913-1946, inclusive
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The SS Bergensfjord was a Norwegian ocean liner that sailed for the Norwegian America Line to the United States between 1913 and 1946.