Born on 15 May (A. S.) 1872 in Kiev, Ukraine. Her father was a lumber merchant. She had [eynene smolereyen in Rutitsh], and then was called "The Rutitsher."

When Braginska was one year old, her mother died and eight years later her father [died] in a pogrom.

Braginska became a seamstress in Kiev. There she worked for a year, and when Goldfaden came to Kiev and heard Braginska sing, he put her on to sing ... from there to Alt-Konstantin, where she learned Yiddish and then traveled about, acting in the prima donna role of "Nye Be, Nye Me" in Goldfaden's troupe in Cherkas. When a year later it became forbidden to act in the Yiddish theatre, Braginska went around, putting on concerts with Fiszon, Blumental, Eyzenberg and Levin.

In 1894 Braginska married Avraham Fiszon, and since then traveled around with him, engaged with his troupe until 1900 in Canada, where she acted for one season in Winnipeg, later in Chicago with Glickman, and in Detroit with Littman.


M.E.

Noah Prilutski -- "Yidish teater [Yiddish Theatre]," Bialystok, 1921, Vol. II, p. 86.