sentences:  The Yiddish Art Theatre operated for more than three decades, until 1950, performing a rotating repertoire of 150 plays, including classics of Yiddish, European, and English theatre, ranging from works by Sholem Aleichem to William Shakespeare.Schwartz took his company on a tour to Europe in 1924 and to South America in 1929.Schwartz's most lauded featured roles were as "Reb Malech" in Israel Joshua Singer's "Yoshe Kalb", "Luka" in Maxim Gorki's "The Lower Depths," Oswald in Henrick Ibsen's "Ghosts," Shylock in William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," at the Palace Theatre, and the title role in "King Lear."