Elmer Rice

American Jewish playwright, born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene. In Jewish World Records, Elmer Rice is connected to the record “First Jewish Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,” based on the stored achievement of Pulitzer Prize for Drama — Street Scene, 1929. Elmer Rice won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene, a landmark play of New York tenement life. Jewish recipient chronologies list Rice as the first Jewish winner in the Drama category. The Pulitzer Prizes identifies Street Scene by Elmer L. Rice as the 1929 Drama winner. JINFO's Jewish Pulitzer Drama chronology begins with Elmer Rice in 1929; JTA contemporaneously and retrospectively identifies Rice as an American-Jewish/Jewish playwright.