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
 

Lupus Bloomenfeld
(Zev)


B. was born on 17 November 1889 in Botosani, Rumania.

His father was a cantor and a ritual slaughterer.

He received a strong, traditional education in a cheder and yeshiva.

After the bar mitzvah he began to learn Rumanian and German, and he became familiar with European literature.

Later he went away to Czernowitz, where he attended the University as an early [free listener=freyer tsuherer], then he lived for a time in Hungary with relatives of his uncle's side, learning Hungarian and becoming familiar with Hungarian literature.

At age nineteen he came to Paris, and as a [free listener=freyer tsuherer] he studied philosophy. Until the war he was maintained by French lectures, and since 1917 collaborated with various French periodical editions. In Yiddish B. debuted in 1913 with a translation, since then he has participated actively in the Yiddish press and in literature with original works and translations.

B. translated "Der karger (The Miser)" by Moliere and Rolland's novel "Velf (Wolves)" (staged by Schwartz on 30 December 1924 in New York's Yiddish Art Theatre), and Rolland's novel "Der spiel fun lebn un toyt".

B. was especially active as a translator of Yiddish literature into French. As such he translated Asch's "God of Vengeance" (performed by Dyulen in Le Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris) and Pinski's "(Der) Oytser (The Treasure)". He also published in French very many articles, assessments and critiques about Yiddish literature and Jewish artists.

On 16 November 1929 B. passed away in Paris.

  • Zalmen Reyzen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature", Vol. I, pp. 300-303.

  • Dr. Y. B. Tspur -- Lupus bloomenfeld, "Literarishe bleter", 52, 1929.

  • Vladimir Grossman -- L. bloomenfeld, "Der tog", N. Y., 5 December 1929.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1,  page 178.
 

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