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
 

Shaul Hochberg

Born on 23 April 1870 in Yaltushkov, Podolia, into a family that held him [yikhus] for [Be"Sht"].

He received a traditional Jewish education.

In 1885 he began to correspond in "Idish folksblat".

At the start of 1907 he became the editor/publisher of the daily newspaper "Unzer leben (Our Life)".

H. composed a theatre play entitled "Treytl kvatsh", that was performed in Lodz, Warsaw and Odessa.


Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 759-762.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 575.
 

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