Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Helen Bida
 

Born 1897 in Czestochowa, Poland.

The family moved to London and there, B. joined a chorus in the Yiddish theatre.

Her first role was “Tsinele,” in Zolotarevsky's "Der Yeshive bokher (The Yeshiva Boy)", at the time of her guest role with Silbert.

B. was then engaged in Paris by Axelrad where she had the opportunity to perform with guest star Jacob Liebert.

From Paris B. went to America, where she spent one season playing with Joseph Shoengold in the Lyric Theatre, Brooklyn, and the rest of the time elsewhere appearing in Chicago as Meyte in Hirshbeyn’s "Puste kretshmne (The Idle Inn)" with Be-Ami.

In 1928-9 B. performed in Boston, and in 1929-30 in Newark for Elving.


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 159.
 

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