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Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
Mordechai Yardeni was Born as Motl Sherman in 1906 in the town of Slovechno (Volyn…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Sholom Secunda
Sholom Secunda was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson…
Boris Thomashevsky
Boris Thomashevsky, son of Yiddish actor and playwright Pincas Thomashevsky, was born in…
Mordekhai Zeira
Life
Mordekhai Zeira was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a…
Leon Blank
Leon Blank was born in Lithuania in 1867. When Blank was just a boy, his family moved to…
Anshel Schorr
Anshel Schorr, son of prominent Lemberg cantor Baruch Schorr, was a mainstay of Yiddish…
Aaron Lebedeff
Aaron Lebedeff was born in Gomel, Russia in 1873. As a young adult, he often appeared in…
Paul Muni (Weisenfreund)
Paul Muni was born in Lemberg, Austria in 1895. Muni's parents, both actors in a…