together with Nellie Cashman
in "Di komediantke" and "Di skhkurte". In the 1934-5
season he acted in Leivick's "Keytn (Chains)" (with
Alexander Granach), in "Sergeant Grisha" (with Kurt
Katch), and "Ofene oygen" (with Rachel Holtzer). 1936-7
-- in the "Novotshtshi" Theatre with Lucy and Misha
German, and then with Zygmunt Turkow in "Mkhusnim" by
Chone Gottesfeld, "Blondzhende shtern" by Sholem
Aleichem, "Noach pandre" by Z. Shneur, "Shop" by
Leivick, and "Dos gevisn fun der velt" by A. Katsizne,
as well as "Sarah sheyndl in yehopets", from Lateiner
(with Ida Kaminska).
At summer's end in 1938 he
acted in the "Novotshtshi" Theatre in the
"National Stage" (direction and management by the
Jewish-German regisseurs Lindberg, Meinhart and Bt Dur),
in the play "Mshpt", "Jacob and Esau") and "Kamf far erd".
In 1939, hart from
the Second World War, together with his wife Reizel and
five actors from Poland, they were brought to Argentina
by Adolf Mide and acted for two years in Argentina.
In 1941-- engaged for New
York's "Public" Theatre (Director Herman Yablokoff),
where he performed in Blum's operetta "Meyn veyse blum".
In 1942 -- participated as "Lazar badkhan" in the star
"Gordin Ensemble" tour across America and Canada
(Frances Adler, Celia Adler, Jacob Ben Ami, Lucy and
Misha German, Berta Gerstin, Jacob Mestel, Menachem
Rubin and Yitzhak Roytblum).
Returning form the tour B.
participated with his wife in various operettas and
vaudeville troupes in New York and the province. In 1956
he acted in the "cooperative dramatic theatre" in
Bimko's play "Father and Son" [Dembes] (Director Jacob
Mestel). 1958 -- he went on a tour across America with
the "Farband" troupe, and in the 1958-59 season he
directed, together with Sheftl Zak, with "Unzer
Theatre", where he performed in the Israeli play "Di
ershte shvalb" (role of "Shmelke") and directed Chone
Gottesfeld's "Parnose".
B. participated in the films
"Yidl mitn fidl" (with Molly Picon), "Tkies khf (The
Vow)" (with Jonas Turkow), "Dybuk (The Dybbuk)" (with
Avraham Morevsky), "Purim shpieler" (with Miriam Kressyn
and Hymie Jacobson), "A brivele der mamen" (with Lucy
German), "Mamele" (with Molly Picon), "Got, mensh un
tayvl (God, Man and Devil)" (with Michal Michalesko and
Berta Gerstin), and "Catskill Mountains (Honeymoon --
ed.)".
In 1935 B. was a member in
the ern-gerikht for the Yiddish Artists Union in
Poland.
In 1943 B. was unanimously
taken in as a member of the Yiddish Actors Union in
America, where he has several times been a member of the
Executive Committee.
B. is a member of the
committee of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre".
M. E.
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Dr. Reuben Feldshuh--
"Yidisher gezelshaftlekher leksikon", Warsaw, 1939,
pp. 543-545.
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M. Ites -- Maks
bozshik oyfn veg keyn argentine, "Idishe bilder",
Riga, N' 20, 1939.
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Morris Meyer -- "Idish
teater in london", London, 1942, p. 321.
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Julius Adler --
Meshus fun der idisher teater-velt, "Morgn
Frayhayt", N. Y., 16 November 1949.
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Chaim Ehrenreich --
Der koperativer "unzer teater" in edyukeyshonel
elayens, "Forward", N. Y., 10 September 1958.
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[Dr. N. Swerdlin] --
Di ekshnim, "Daily Morning Journal", N. Y., 11
September 1958.
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