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
 

Ignatsi Migdalski
(Migdal)

 

M. was born circa 1877 in Pietrkow, Poland. M. had -- according to Nakhum Lipovski -- begun his stage career in the Polish theatre, from there he crossed over to the Yiddish stage in Warsaw and then he acted in Kurland, with Kompaneyets. Due to material conditions he entered into a Russian choir, where he was the choirmaster and [eynshtudirt] the dance. Later he returned to the Yiddish stage and acted in the "United Troupe", with Rappel-Eppelberg and with Kompaneyets.

M. was a "fat comic" and was very popular as a singer and dancer.

On 25 September 1909 he passed away from tuberculosis in Warsaw.
 

M. E. from Nakhum Lipovski, H. Feynshteyn, Hirsh Flaum and A. G. Kompaneyets.

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1291.
 

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