vakhtel/yosef

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

Yosef Vakhtel

V. was born in Odessa, Ukraine.

He began his stage career in Shomer's troupe in southern Russia, and after [farvar: truly] in the Yiddish theatre in Russia he went in 1883 to London where he acted for a short time and traveled from there with Zilberman's troupe (Zilberman and his wife, Chaimovitsh and wife, Karp, Barodkin and his wife and Lateiner) to America, where he acted for a certain time in comedic roles.

M. E. from Mishe Nakhamkus, Boris Thomashefsky and Mr. Sarasan..

B. Gorin -- "Di Geshikhte fun idishn teater (History of the Yiddish Theatre)", Vol. I, pp. 234, 242; Vol. II, p. 30.
David Kessler -- Mir shpilen in neshonel teater, "Der tog", N. Y., 11 Mar 1917.

Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 645.