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Anshel Schorr
… with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as Joseph Rumshinsky , Sholom … for Ich vil a boy ) … Yiddish theater lyricist, composer & actor … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Lyricist … Actor … New York … Anshel Schorr …
Aaron Lebedeff
… he moved to New York, where he became one of the leading actors for Boris Thomashefsky ’s National Theater. Lebedeff …
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
… was born in Lemberg, Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a traveling Yiddish repertory company, immigrated … In 1936, Muni was awarded an Academy Award for best actor in the film The Story of Louis Pastuer (1935). The … In addition to his Academy Award, Muni received four Best Actor Nominations for the films: The Valiant (1929), Chain …
Harry Von Tilzer
… A year later, he left home for Chicago, where he became an actor, pianist and composer in a small local theatrical …
Jennie Goldstein
… acting at the age of six, playing child roles opposite actor greats Bertha Kalish , Keni Liptzin, and David … Goldstein collaborated with some Yiddish theater’s greatest actors and composers, such as Molly Picon , Isador Lillian, …
Seymour Rechzeit
… Empire (now Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland). He was an actor, known for Her Second Mother (1940), Shir Hashirim …
Frida Zibel-Goldstein
… ' Shimshen der hagiber ' (Samson the Hero). In 1894 the actor Tsvibel came to Lemberg. Frida married him and was … for several years acting in Galicia. In 1906 Zibel married actor Leyzer Goldstein with whom she acted since then in …
Bessie Weissman
… She played child and adult roles with a number of the great actors, including Bertha Kalish , Jacob P. Adler …
Regina Zuckerberg
… she immigrated to the United States with her husband, the actor Sigmund Zuckerberg. She was a leading actress in … the American Yiddish Theater and one of its most important actor-impresarios. Throughout her career, she remained his … In the mid-1910s she became a member of the Union of Jewish Actors in the United States. She was most well known for her …
Reuben Rinder
… and its philanthropic tradition. The confluence of these factors enabled Rinder to pursue a path of musical innovation …