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Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… His mother, Malka, came from a family of wealthy contractors. In 1922 his family immigrated to the United States … a member of the executive committees of the Union of Jewish Actors and the Jewish Theater Union, President of the United …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… can see just in these two reports a hint of the network of actors with which Geshuri interacted. It includes extremely …
Abraham Goldfaden
… slowly began building a cast of performers, recruiting actors, singers, cantors, and wandering minstrels to be …
Sholom Secunda
… that the next step was to win acceptance to the Hebrew Actors Union. It was a policy of the Union to send actors and composers outside of New York for at least three …
Boris Thomashefsky
… in helping to bring a number of high quality European actors and dramatists to America. He sponsored Ossip Dymov, …
Mordekhai Zeira
… Union at the time of the communist revolution, in which actors wearing blue shirts went to the factories to spread …
Leon Blank
… busy performing schedule, Blank helped to found the Hebrew Actors Union in 1899. During the 1920’s Blank appeared …
Anshel Schorr
… with some of the Yiddish theater’s most renowned actors and composers such as Joseph Rumshinsky , Sholom …
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 …