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
 

(?) Strokover


Avraham Fiszon recalls in his memoirs:

"The entire time I did not calm down and sought a girl with a voice, who may have a feeling for singing. Also the other four from our troupe, m'shtayn said, did not rest, and where we came from we were blessed, that perhaps we may search and find a prima donna for the Yiddish stage, and we just found in a small town in Brailov.

She was a beautiful young girl, a sister-in-law of the Brailov rabbi, that is, his wife's sister. She had a sweet voice and also had a desire to play theatre. We were in seventh heaven, and in a month's time she knew all the songs from our 'Bobe..."

[rest of biography missing from this unpublished volume...]

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 7, page 6290.
 

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