khazan/khayim-arye

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

Khayim Arye Khazan

Kh. was born on 15 June 1863 in Amdur, Grodno Gubernia, Polish Lithuania.

He learned in cheders and in the Grodno Yeshiva.

Under the influence of Yiddish literature, mainly from A. M. Dik's books, he left the yeshiva at age fourteen and due to his poverty became a tutor. He studied some languages on his own, and afterwards became a teacher.

Kh. translated the operetta "Di veyse lilye", "Di nakht fun libe" by Valentinov, "Graf luksenburg", "Di freylikhe almnh", and "Faust", which were performed at the Vilna Yiddish Theatre.

Zalmen Reyzen -- "Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Lexicon of Yiddish Literature)", Vol. I, pp. 1142-4.

Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 800.