petlakh/shaye

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

Shaye Petlakh

A [komyugyst].

He worked earlier in a furniture factory.

In his thirtieth year he came with a young group for the Bielo Tserkov drama in the Kharkov Yiddish State Theatre.

In 1936 he became an actor and director for the Zhitomir [moving=bavleglekhn] Yiddish Theatre.

He fell as a volunteer at the Front in the struggle against the Nazis.

Sh. E.

Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 5, page 4510.