frank/abraham

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

Abraham Frank

F. was born on 5 February 1900 in Cincinnati, America. He was the son of the actors Jacob (Yakov) and Anna (Chana) Frank.

He learned with a melamed, and completed public school. As a child he acted with his parents in their itinerant ways across America, and later until he was twenty-one years old acted in adolescent roles as a buff-comic. He retired from the theatre and became an artist.

M. E. from Jacob Frank.

Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 6, page 4978.