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
 

Betty Bleichman
(Beyla Katz)
 

 

B. was born on 20 January 1874 in Tarnopol, Galicia.

Her father was a businessman.

She learned in school until age fifteen, and when Jacob Bleichman came to the city with the Treitler troupe, she was taken into the chorus, and together they traveled to Romania.

After their marriage, B. followed the same path as her husband.

On 30 September 1929, B. passed away in Philadelphia from an automobile accident.
 

M. E. from Jacob Bleichman.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 181.
 

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