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Max Leibowitz
… (in Philadelphia). He is listed as composer of some Yiddish songs recorded in the early twentieth century. Full …
Arnold Perlmutter
… Biography in Milken Archive. … Composer of Yiddish theater music … Composers … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Arnold Perlmutter …
Herman Wohl
… full biography (Milken Archive) click here . … Composer of Yiddish theater music … Composers … 0 … Composer … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Herman Wohl …
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 … Theater on October 6, 1911. The operetta became a staple of Yiddish theater repertoire, and was performed frequently in …
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 … (1927), and many more. Lebedeff continued to be active in Yiddish theater well into the 1940’s. When he died on November 8, 1960, the Yiddish theatre lost one of its most formative and …
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 … and the Irving Place Theater during his 18 years on the Yiddish stage. In 1926, Muni made his first Broadway …
Bertha Kalish
… Yiddish theater and Broadway actress Bertha Kalish was born … Kalish was performing regularly at Yakov Ber Gimpel’s Yiddish Theater. Kalish played the starring role in Gimpel’s … New York City in 1896, where she became a mainstay of the Yiddish theater, until 1905 when she transitioned to …
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 … stars to bring to America. It was during this time that Yiddish theater star Bertha Kalish was recruited and …