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
 

Ida Magidzohn
(Stone)
 

 

M. was born in Manchester, England. Her parents were owners of a colonial business. After her marriage to actor Aleksander Magidzon, through him she was taken onto the stage.

Later M. married the actor Charles Nathanson and together with him acted with success, [erb] the war donors, in South Africa, then in Europe and America.

On 11 May 1916 M., after a two-year illness, passed away from cancer in New York and was interred at Washington Cemetery (in Brooklyn, New York -- ed.)
 

M. E. from M. D. Vaksman.

  • B. Gorin -- "History of Yiddish Theatre", Vol. II, p. 198.

  • H. Hersh -- Idish teaer in drum afrika, "South Africa", 5, 1928.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1208.
 

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