(Playbill). “The Romance of a People.” A Musical and Dramatic Pageant… Portraying the Highlights in Four Thousand Years of Jewish History. Polo Grounds, New York City.

Originally performed at Chicago’s World’s Fair on “Jewish Day,” July 3, 1933, “The Romance of a People” featured 6,000 actors, singers and dancers, and celebrated 4,000 years of Jewish history. The playbill includes notes on Jewish history, an article entitled: Palestine: Land of Promise and Fulfillment, and a congratulatory message from President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Against a backdrop of Nazi violence abroad and anti-Semitic sentiment at home, the pageant sought to raise funds for the settlement of German-Jewish refugees in Palestine.