The year is 1926. The scene is the doorpost, the doorpost of a bakery in Cracow, Poland. We meet an old man wearing a white shawl, he speaks with a smile and a toothy grin and reminisces in his thick Yiddish accent. It soon becomes clear that this elderly gentleman is quite like any other, because he is in fact a mezuzah. He is the prayer scroll that was attached to the doorpost of Reb Finkel’s bakery, and this play is his story. The story of a lost world.

Customers walk in and out of the shop with hasty abandon and we see every one of them in all their enchanting colour. There is Zev, the socialist who plans to find spiritual redemption for the workers in Poland. There is Sara, the beautiful actress who performs risqué plays with the Yiddish Art Theatre. There is even Srulik, the orphan child who escaped a pogrom and lived to tell the tale.

As the play progresses we see a society that lived, learnt, laughed, sung and danced. This was Poland in the late 1920’s, a time of optimism and joi de vivre. This is before the ultimate shadow begins to loom overhead...

'Thank you for the wonderful drama and programmes you brought to your camp...they were both educational and thoroughly enjoyable'
Eli Ovitz, Head of Camp, Devon

'It was...inspirational!!!'
Howard Cooper, LTJT

'a very impressive performance, which caught the attention and interest of our pupils…the theme is highly educational and important…[it was] extremely beneficial for our pupils'
Mary Shafir, Western Galilee Regional High School, Israel

'it was an outstanding success. It is refreshing to know that there are new ideas floating around to educate the next generation’
Marc Weinberg, Former Chairperson, Bnei Akiva

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