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
 

Shlomo Naumov
(Zaslavsky)

 

N. was born on 9 April 1898 in Odessa, Ukraine, into a not-well-off family. His father was a man of music and composer of many Chasidic melodies. In 1909 he began to learn solfeggio with popular music and the conductor Garbarsky, at the same time learning in the Odessa Talmud Torah under the auspices of Mendele Mokher Sefarim and M. Kleinman. There he also became "a solo singer" and the oldest in the "Knabn-chorus". In 1910-12 he acted in children's roles in the troupes of Kaminski, Genfer, Lipovski, Rappel and Sharavner, and at the same time also performed in "children's concerts" in various cities, and he studied music with the theatre musicians Yakovkin Hochberg, Sandler, Vinokur et al.

From 1912-14 he learned in the Odessa city school of Afrti and at the same time sang in the Shalashener, small Prikatshshiker and high schools, and in the troupes of Rappel and then of Kurik.

In 1915-16 he toured with a Russian troupe. In 1916-17 -- he served in the military and directed the dramatic section of the officer's club in Volsk (on the Volga). In 1917 he entered into the first Yiddish conservatory of Pinye Minkovsky. In 1919 he served in the Red Army, distributing the natsminderheytn from bandit attacks. At the same time he participated in the founding of many worker's clubs and dramatic sections in Poltava and the Donner region.

 

In 1920 he was cofounder of the Jewish state theatre "Kunst-vinkl (Art's Corner)" in Kiev, where he acted for several years. In 1925 he traveled to Argentina, where he participated in the local Yiddish theatre and in his struggle against the "Tmayim". Here he also founded and lead the first worker's children's theatre in Argentina, then he found and led the worker's theatre studio with the worker's club "Spartak" in Buenos Aires.

In 1928 he arrived in Europe and directed in the Yiddish theatres of Poland, England, Lithuania, France, Latvia and Romania, most of the time together with his brother Rudolf Zaslavsky.

N. composed music and songs for Gottesfeld's "Parnasah", for Molnar's "Der teyvl", for "Tuviya der milkiger", and An-ski's "Der dybuk", as well as various songs and declamations, which were performed by Yiddish actors.


Sh. E.

  • Moniek -- Der ern-ovnt fun Kh' Sh. Naumov, "Royter shtern", Buenos Aires, N' 9, 1928.

  • V. D. -- A far gezunt dem khaver naumov, "Royter shtern", Buenos Aires, N '30, 1928.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1383.
There is an amended biography of Shlomo Naumov in the Lexicon's memorial volume, Vol. 5.
 

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