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Anshel Schorr
… prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr , was a mainstay of Yiddish Theater in New York and Philadelphia. He worked as a … decades of activity, Schorr collaborated with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as …
Reuben Doctor
… in Milken Archive. … Composer & lyricist of the American Yiddish theater … 0 … Reuben Doctor …
Aaron Lebedeff
… stage. He was nicknamed “Litvak Komiker,” (the Lithuanian Yiddish comic) both for his stage manner, and for the … sang. In 1912 he began to perform at The Itzkhok Zandberg’s theater in Lódz. Around the same time, he married Vera Lubow … (1927), and many more. Lebedeff continued to be active in Yiddish theater well into the 1940’s. When he died on …
Louis Gilrod
… in Milken Archive, Click Here … Composer & lyricist of Yiddish theater music … 0 … Louis Gilrod …
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
… Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a traveling Yiddish repertory company, immigrated to America in 1899. As … after which he was recruited to join Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater Company. Muni often performed at the Second Avenue …
Bertha Kalish
… Yiddish theater and Broadway actress Bertha Kalish was born in … her stage career as a member of the choir at the Polish Theater. By the age of seventeen, Kalish was performing regularly at Yakov Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater. Kalish played the starring role in Gimpel’s …
Regina Prager
… Yiddish actress and singer Regina Prager was born in Lemberg … Prager began her stage career at Yankev Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater, where she quickly became one of the forefront …
Jennie Goldstein
… Yiddish theater star Jennie Goldstein was born in New York in 1896. … childhood and early adulthood revolved around the Yiddish theater; by the age of sixteen she was already running her …
Isa Kremer
… through the An-sky Jewish Folklore Research Project. … Yiddish theater actress & singer … 0 … Isa Kremer …
Salcia Weinberg
… , she too began her career in the choir of the Polish Theater in Lemberg, later switching to Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater. Weinberg later left the theater and traveled with a Yiddish variety show through Bulgaria, Hungary and Germany, …