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Nachum
Bazelinski
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Born in 1836 in Zhitomir
(?), to a rich family. Zalmen Reyzen called him in the
"Lexicon" (Vol. I, p. 899), supported in B. Gorin's
"History of the Yiddish Theatre" (Vol. II, p. 51), "Vazelinski,"
and went on that "B. was a shoemaker from Odessa".
The actors Bliefeld and
Tabatshnikov relate that Bazelinski (not Vazelinski)
had indeed lived in Odessa, but he wasn't a shoemaker;
he had a shoe business. B. may have been born in
Zhitomir and learned together with Goldfaden in the
local rabbinical school. B. also may have composed a
play "Der blbul," which Goldfaden had adapted as "Dr. Almasado."
Khina Braginska-Fiszon
states that her troupe had in Berdichev staged B.'s play
"Der yidishe doktor."
Moshe Schorr thinks B. in
the years 1882-3 was a director of an insurance business
in Odessa.
B. composed the play "Di
meshugene oys libe," which in the eightieth year
almost
at the beginning of Yiddish theatre, with a great
success was played at first in Russia, then in other
countries, and yet later in America. The play was one of the
first dramas on the Yiddish stage.
In 1881 B. translated and
issued "Esther," a tragedy in five acts by Ludvik
Filipson, "translated in the Yiddish language and
arranged for the stage by N. B. Bazelinska [Odessa, 84
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In the university library of
Jerusalem, one finds the following two plays of B.:
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"Di shtile khasene," or,
"Di ferfolgte liebe," composed by N. B. Baz'linski,
in Odessa 18 November 1880 ["Meshugene oys libe"?]
heroysgebeyben by A. Bazilinski" [56 pp.,
16°], censured in Kiev 24 June 1905, alza damolt
berkh gedrukt].
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"Gedalyahu's toyt" [on a
title page, adaption of Filipson's "Gedalyahu," 72
pp., 16°. also issued by A. Bazilinski, (Russian
Bazelinski), who says that in the second edition
there was included a detailed biography of the
author, and content meanwhile with a shorter epitaph
in Hebrew, giving the birth and death dates of the
author, as well as his picture].
B. passed away in 1901.
M. E. from Itzhak Blihfeld, Sh. Tabatshnikov, Moshe
Schorr, Khina Braginska-Fishzon and Avraham Fishkind.
Sh. E. from
Miriam Zylbercweig and Ben-Zion Yedidah.
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B. Gorin -- "History of
Yiddish Theatre," Vol. II, p. 51.
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B. Gorin -- "History of
Yiddish Theatre" {list of plays).
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Zalmen Reyzen --
"Lexicon of Yiddish Literature,",Vol. I, p. 899.
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Y. Sh. -- Umbakante
yidishe dramaturgn, "Pinkas," New York, 1928, 3, p.
271.
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Zalmen Zylbercweig --
Vegn di umbakante yidish dramaturgn, "Pinkas," N.
Y., 5, 1929.
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Jacob P. Adler -- "Mayn
leben," "Di naye varhayt," 13 April 1925.
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