M.Z. Broida
(Meyer
Grozny)
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Born on 4 October 1892 in
Sosnitsa, Chernigov Gubernia. Father -- a tailor. Until
age twelve he learned in a cheder, at first with a
private melamed, then in a Talmud Torah. His
father was at times a purimshpiler on an
improvised stage in the women's synagogue and used to
act as "Joseph" in "The Sale of Joseph." Also
his older
brother used to participate in the purimshpils. Broida
learned with them the songs and "speak" (dialogue),
brought together several cheder youths and performed
"Haman," and he arranged at the age of eleven that play
across the houses of the town. Klebndik the
"costumes," Broida learned a little bookbinding, and then
performed as a bookbinder.
Seeing Genfer's troupe in
1905, Broida thus became excited to the point that he decided to
become an actor, and he went to Poltava to his sister,
there often attending the Russian and Yiddish theatre
and traveled to Odessa and performed in the Yiddish
theatre there. This gives him self and not one(?), and
Broida began to perform as a declaimer in an intimate
evening. Since 1912 he began to perform as a
character-comic in one-acters. In 1913 he deserted from
military service, and fled to Eretz Yisrael. For a short
time he worked in the "Ben-Shimon" farm, after as a
bookbinder in Yafu, and here together with Vardi acted
in the Hebrew amateur productions, and in wartime
together with actor Nachman Zibel he performed in the
film halls with declamations in Yiddish, and then
(together with Ziebel, Wallerstein and his wife)
staged Kh"b Tishrei 1914 in Yafu "Zhidovka" in Yiddish.
Not knowing oyf various disturbances, the
production became |
ibernekhzrt several times. Soon
thereafter Broida went to Egypt, where he, together
with a group of actors in Alexandria, organized
several Yiddish evenings, then acted for a short
time in Yiddish in Cairo in the Frintane
Theatre. From there he migrated to Bulgaria,
where Broida performed in 1916 with Hebrew
declamations, later with Romanian and Bulgarian
declamations, and went for a certain time over
Bulgaria with a Bulgarian troupe. In 1918 he
arrived in the Soviet Union, entered into a
Poltava theatre committee as an instructor for
nationalized troupes and studied for several
months in Kiev's conservatory. In the time of birger krig was director of a drama circle
in Snovsk, Chernigrov Gubernia, then acted for
several months in the provincial troupe of
Sheinfeld, in Kiev with Rakitine, in Poltava
with Saslavsky, in Homel with Lichtenstein and
Rubin. Then he directed with a drama circle in
Glukhov, and there directed in 1922 in his
translation Zudermann's "Ere", and participated
in "Dos umfarshtendike meydl". Later he acted in
Tomni with Guzik, in Minsk with Brandesko, in
1924 was together with Bugova for a short time
in Poltava, and soon thereafter in the Moscow
Sholem Aleichem Studio, then he entered into the
theatre studio "Fraykunst" (director Vershilov),
where he has worked until today, and there acted
in the title role in Leivick's "Hirsh Leckert."
Sh.E.
from L. Dushman.
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