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
 

Gershon Zeykin


According to B. Gorin, there was staged in 1903 New York Z.'s translation of Tolstoy's "Tkhit hmtim" under the name of "Di ervakhung" and Meterlink's "Mona vana", under the name of "Di heldin, oder mona vana". In 1905 there was staged Z.'s "Di irushah", which in February 1912 again staged in the Lipzin Theatre a new adaptation under the name of "Libe der reyhktun".
 

  • B. Gorin -- History of Yiddish Theatre, Vol. I, p. 266.

  • Dr. Jacob Shatzky -- Tsvey briv funester rukhl kaminska, "Archive", pp. 463-4.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 774.
 

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