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
 

Ezer Marshelik
(Assistant Jester)
(Rohatiner?)


A Lemberger, he was very popular at weddings.

There he used to perform as a "Chasid" in "meyn shlim-mzlnitze", in which he had played their own, and he used to [kuntsik] disguise himself with a beard.

He was a great Ben-Torah, and therefore people used to call on him for rabbinical weddings many times in Russia.

Y. passed away in 1886.


M. E. from Gershom Bader and Itsikl Goldenberg.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 143.
 

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