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Fraydele Oysher
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Born in Lipkany, Bessarabia. Her father was a
cantor. At the age of seven, she arrived in
Montreal, Canada. She learned in a school. As a
child she moved with her family to Philadelphia,
United States, where she sang in the chorus with her
father during the High Holidays, a little later
debuting with two songs in Siegel's operetta in the
"Arch Street Theatre". At first when Boris
Thomashefsky staged in the "Gibson" Theatre his
operetta "Bar Mitzvah" with Sol Dickstein's troupe,
Fraydele debuted in a role. In the Sholem Aleichem
School where she had learned, as Michael Gelbart was
musical director, she had the opportunity to
participate in the school concerts.
Moving to New York, she
began to perform in radio and in concerts, and she
entered into the troupe of Louis Kramer in the
"Amphion" Theatre, where she acted for several
months.
Linked closely to the
theatre productions, she actually first had her
wedding to Harold Sternberg when L. Freiman wrote
for her the operetta "Fraydele's Wedding", Morris
Nestor "The Cantor of Chelm", Jacob Bergreen "Poor
Orphan", Nestor "The Cantor's Daughter", and Abraham
Blum "Golden Girl" (which was later called "A Cantor
on Shabes", and "A Cantor on Yom Tov").
Fraydele was engaged in
1936 to Argentina, where she also performed beyond
her repertoire as "Itzhakl" in Goldfaden's "The
Sacrifice of Isaac" and Thomashefsky's "Bar
Mitzvah". Returning to America, she acted in the
same repertoire and also in Molly Picon's repertory
in Chicago's "Douglas Street Theatre", in New York's
"National" Theatre, and across the province.
Fraydele also
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guest-starred twice in Cuba,
and for several weeks in Los Angeles in "A Chazundel on
Shabes".
Sh. Rozhansky writes:
"Fraydele and Aaron
Sternberg are still very young actors. Young according
to the years and young according to their
aktorishkeyt. They are determined (bashtimt) the
recent guest-performing which the Yiddish theatres in
Argentina had when s'nit iz gehat. They are however in
their stage work different from our younger actors....
confirming the sayings "young and wild", "jumps like a
wild goat" [...with Fraydele and Sternberg] is the story
of a package. Instead iberzaltsen ...."
Sh. Beilin [Dr. L.
Zihtnitsky] writes:
...Few Yiddish plays have such
fine, neat and lyrical musical numbers as the comedy
Fraydele’s Wedding, and in singing, it is really
Fraydele’s best...mainly in hazzanut, of which she sang
a tremendous amount, and sang like a true khaznte, or
like a hazzan, just as if she were at the prayer stand.
Veynik Yidishe piesn hobn
azelkhe fayne, tsikhtike un lirishe muzikalishe numern
vi di komedye “Freydeles Khasene,” un in zingen iz takeh
faran dos beste fun Freydele... iberhoypt tsu khazonish,
vos zi hot fun dos ongezungen on a shiur, un gezungen vi
an emeseh khaznte oder vi a khazn, punkt vi zi volt baym
omud geshtanen. (needs translation...) |
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