In September 1938, the stage at Jezuicka was graced by one of the brightest stars of Jewish theatre of the time, Rudolf Zasławski. He played Tevye the Dairyman, a poor Jew from a small Ukrainian shtetl, afflicted with numerous tribulations. Tevye, a character from the popular novels and stories by Sholem Aleichem, would later be the protagonist of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof and its film version.
Zasławski first came to fame before World War I, when he became the first Jewish actor to perform – also as Tevye – at the Imperial Opera in Petersburg. He later appeared on European and American stages and went on to settle in Warsaw in the late 1920s, where he established his own theatre.
There is little that we know about the performance itself, beyond that it was advertised by an illustrated announcement in the Lubliner Tugblat:
