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
 

Asher Feyershteyn
(Zelig Gabel?)
 

 

Born in Galicia, and afterwards he immigrated to Rumania.

He was in novel{?] a choir singer for a cantor, afterwards he became a brother of Rumanian [makhlim].

He married and soon left his wife, then became a folksinger, and for a long time toured with Moshe the Blind and Yakov Yonah Tsimbler.

Afterwards he went away to Constantinople, where he became a house owner, and he opened a bar in Galata known as "Tsum estreykhishn odler", specifically [ongebndik] connected to his correct name of Zelig Gabel.

F. may now be a cantor in Salonika.
 

M. E. from Sam Ludvik.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 232.
 

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