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Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre
BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE WHO WERE ONCE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE;
aS FEATURED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S  "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"


VOLUME 5: THE KDOYSHIM (MARTYRS) EDITION, 1967, Mexico City

 

 

Manuel Shekhtman
 


 

He was born in 1900 in a village named Lipniki, Ukraine.

In 1970 (sic--ed.--perhaps 1920) he finished the Kiev Art Institute. He worked for a sheydene valuable art on various topics, which found themselves in the museum of the Soviet Union.

Sh. had, at the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre, produced the images of Moshe Gershenzon's play, "Hershele ostropoler," that through Benjamin Zuskin were performed in Kiev. In the theatre for the "Arbeiter-Yungnt=Young Workers", he produced several offerings that they performed for the artistic manager S. G. Novak.

At the end of August 1941, Sh. freely went away to the Front to protect his homeland, and in November 1941 he fell in the struggle against the Nazis.

His brother, Yakov, also was a painter, and their sister was an actress.


Sh. E. from Yona Radinov.

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 5, page 4761.
 

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