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
 

Boris Altman

He was born in Odessa [?], and there was a singer in the Vienna cellars together with Mendl Abramovitsh, Jacob Katsman, Aaron Tager and Schrage, and when Israel Rozenberg with Spivakovsky were to act in Odessa, he went around with them, later going over to Goldfaden's troupe in Odessa.

A. used to call himself "Bad-goy" because he was a "dicker (bargainer)", and hadn't any Yiddish [oyszen].
 

B. Gorin -- "Di Geshikhte fun idishn teater (The History of the Yiddish Theatre)", Volume I, pp. 205-7-9.

Jacob P. Adler -- Zeyn lebens beshreybung, "The Theatre Journal", New York, 3, 1901-2.


 

 

 

 


 

Home       |       Site Map       |      Exhibitions      |      About the Museum       |       Education      |      Contact Us       |       Links


Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 62.
 

Copyright Museum of Family History.  All rights reserved.