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Women       Men

ABRAMOWITZ, BINA
Actress
   

ADLER, CELIA
Actress
 
ADLER, JULIA
Actress
     
ADLER, SARAH
Actress
     
APPEL, ANNA
Actress
     
BAKLANOVA, OLGA
Moscow Art Theatre, 1928-9
     
DRANOVA, NADIA      
ELIAS, MIRIAM
Actress
     
FERKAUF, BETTY
Member of the Executive Board of  the Hebrew Actor's Union
     

   1938

FISCHER, ANKA
Actress; singer

Actress in the Yiddish theatre of Warszawa; Singer

perished in the Holocaust

     

FISCHER, LIZA BARSKA
Actress in the Yiddish theatre of Warszawa

perished in the Holocaust

     

FISCHER, LUBA
Actress in the Yiddish theatre of Warszawa

perished in the Holocaust
     
GERMANOVA, MARIA/MARYA
(1884-1940)

Member of the
Moscow Art Theatre, 1902-1919,
photo 1928-9

 

     
GERSTEN/GERSTIN, BERTA/BERTHA
Actress
     
GOLD, CELIA      
GOLDSTEIN, JENNIE
Actress
 
     



1922
GORDON, VERA
née VERA NEMIROU
Actress
(1886-1948)
b. Russia

She immigrated to New York with her family in 1904 where she began to work in the Yiddish theatre. Subsequently, Gordon found work in vaudeville, both in the United States and Great Britain.

In 1920, Gordon began her film career, at first in silent films and then in talkies, mostly playing character roles such as that of the Jewish mother and family matriarch.

     
GREENFIELD, ROSE
Actress
     
GURSKAYA, SONIA
Actress
     
HOFFMAN, ANNA
Actress
     
JAFFE, CHANA      

1931
KADISON, CHANA (HANNAH)
Mother of Luba Kadison
     

KADISON, LUBA
(1907-2006)
b. Kovno, Lithuania
Actress and former member of Vilna troupe

      1931
     
   
KALISH (KALICH), BERTHA
Actress
   
KARIN, RITA
(-1993)
b. Vilnius, Lithuania (Poland)


Actress Rita Karen Rita Karin was born and raised in Poland. Both of her parents were killed during the Holocaust. At that time she was studying in the Moscow State Jewish theater. In 1945, she moved to Germany where she narrated a documentary about American troops freeing concentration camp prisoners, The Mills of Death  for the U.S. Information Agency.

Following the war, Karin and her spouse Norbert Horowitz founded a traveling Yiddish theater group for those surviving the Holocaust. In 1949, Karin moved to New York and became a well-respected member of the Yiddish theater community. She also worked on- and off-Broadway, in television, and in a few films from the early '70s though the early '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
 

   


KARP, SOPHIA
(nee Segal, Sara)
Actress
(1861-1904)
b. Galaţi, Romania

 
     
KNIPPER-
TCEKHOVA/CHEKHOVA, OLGA
(1868-1959)

Pupil of Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Philharmonic School in Moscow, founder member of the Moscow Art Theatre. Married Anton Chekhov in 1900. Widow of playwright Anton Tchekhoff/Chekhov,
photo 1928-9
 
     
KORANIAVA?, MLLE.
Moscow Art Theatre, 1928-9
     
KRESSYN (RECHTZEIT), MIRIAM
Actress
     
KRIZHANOVSKAYA, MLLE.
Moscow Art Theatre, 1928-9
     
LILINA, MARIA/MARYA
wife/widow of Stanislavsky

Moscow Art Theatre, 1928-9


 

     
LIPZIN, KENNY      
LUBRITZKY, FANNY
Actress
     
ORLOVA, MLLE.
Moscow Art Theatre, 1928-9
     
PAULINGER, MINNIE
Actress
     
RADINA, SONIA
Actress
     
SALZMAN, ESTA
(1914-2008)
b. Boston, MA
Actress

 
     
SCHWARTZ, ANNA      
SILBERT, LIZA
Actress
     
SIMON, MAE
Actress
     
ST. CLAIRE, MAJDA      
TEITELBAUM, ANNA
Actress
   
THOMASHEFSKY, ANNA
Actress
     
YOUNG, CLARA      
ZHDANOVA, MARIA
 
     
Men        
 

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