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
 

Jacob Glatstein
(Yankev Glatshteyn)
 

Jacob Glatstein was born on August 20, 1896 in Lublin, Poland.

Taught by teachers and then by himself at a Beit HaMedrash, he later undertook a six-class program at gymnasium.

In 1914, Glatstein immigrated to America, where he studied at yeshivas.

He debuted with a story in “Freie arbeiter shtime”, having lived for a while in an Americanized environment. Only in 1919 did he return to Yiddish literature, publishing poems and articles in various periodicals, as well as publishing several collections of poems. Glatstein published the one-act “Purim guardia” in “Kinder Journal” in 1924, and his dramatic poem “Noah” appeared in “Tzukunft” in March, 1925.
 

Zalmen Reyzen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature", Vol. I, pp. 584-5.

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 485.
 

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