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
 

Rudolph Christian(s)

He was director of the German theatre in "Irving Place" Theatre in New York, and when the troupe disbanded, and Maurice Schwartz took over the theatre for Yiddish [productions], Christians debuted there as "R' Akiva" in Gutzkof's "Uriel Akosta"; later he performed in Osip Dymow's play "Di dervakhung fun a folk".

He didn't remain on the Yiddish stage for long.

 -- Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Theatre Mosaic," New York, 1941, p. 192.


 

 

 

 

 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 6, page 5682.

A second Lexicon biography is available in Volume 7 (unpublished in hardcover, but can be read here), page 6292.
 

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