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
 

Leon Hoffman
 

H. was born on 22 June 1900 in Bender (Bendery), Bessarabia.

His father was the owner of a [bakalei, in Yiddish] shop. 

The family moved to Hosiatin Podolsk where Hoffman studied at a cheder until the age of ten, and then at a "real" school in Bender until he was thirteen when the family immigrated to America.

Hoffman studied at a public school in Philadelphia and at Beit Mishkan Israel Yeshiva. Later he became a chronicler at the Philadelphia branch of “Di varheyt” ["The Truth"] as well as at the local “Yidish velt” ["Jewish World"] and began publishing humoresques and poems using the pen name of Feierstein in “Kunz" and A. Ipsel in the "Forward”.

In 1919 he arrived in New York and became a publicity manager at Schnitzer’s Art Theatre.

Later Hoffman managed the “Schildkraut Theatre” as well as other troupes. Since 1926 he has been a publicity manager, and since 1928 also the manager of Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre in New York City.


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 584.
 

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