The Jewish National Theatre, Plac Grzybowski
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The first Jewish theatrical performance in Warsaw was given in 1838. Even during the Second World War theatrical performances took place within the ghetto.
In 1949 the Jewish National Theatre was founded in the city of Lódz. It moved to Warsaw in the 1950s and to Grzybowski Square in 1970.
The theatre has 390 seats and is named after Ester Rachel Kaminska (1870-1925), 'the mother of Jewish theatre', who founded the Warsaw Jewish Theatre in 1913. She is buried in the Okopowa Street cemetery.
Performances are given in Yiddish and Polish, and there is a Mime Theatre. The building also houses the Central Board of the Socio-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland and the offices of Dos Jidisze Wort, a popular Yiddish-language weekly newspaper.