Pearl Primus in "Strange Fruit" by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Curator Of Exhibitions, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy, Lewis B. Cullman Center

Photograph by Myron Ehrenberg, October 25, 1945, "provided by [press representative] Ivan Black for Café Society."  Jerome Robbins Dance Division   The Library for the Performing Arts's exhibition on political cabaret focuses on the three series associated with Isaiah Sheffer, whose Papers are in the Billy Rose Theatre Division. It begins with a section introducing the genre from its 1930s-1940s roots in New…

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