B. then went back to
be an actor and stage director in the troupe of
Bernstein in Lublin, where he met with the actor
Hershl Weissman, who was working for him in the
troupe with Ester Rokhl Kaminska in Warsaw's "Jardin
d'Hiver." According to the actor Feinstein, B.
had there, with a very success, played lover
roles.
In 1907, when the
"United Troupe," with Ester Rokhl Kaminska at
its head, traveled for the first time in the
history of Yiddish theatre, openly to play
Yiddish theatre in Peterburg. where B. was a
member of the troupe. He played there in the
role of "Danny" in "Mirele efros," "Shmuel Yosl"
in "Di shkhithe," "Thalia" in "Der umbakanter,"
"Vladimir" in "Khasye di yesoyme," "Mishe" in
"Di muter," and "Mark" in "Di emese kraft."
In his autobiography
B., says what the famous theatre critic Kugel
said about him in writing:
"Brandesko is an
artist with a great emotional and passionate
range. He does not accept only tragic roles, but
also comic." Not looking for (the exceptional)
success, the entire troupe still needed every
production before night at the terminal, because
there is no residence in the city itself, we
didn't have one."
From 1908 until 1913
B. remained connected to Ester-Rokhl Kaminska's
troupe. From 1913 until 1917 he had wandered off
with a Yiddish theatre across cities and towns
in the Ukraine.
The actor of
Birobidzhan's Jewish State Theatre, Fridman,
according to his memoirs, stated that in 1914,
after the outbreak of the First World War, A
Yiddish theatre troupe had in Genitshesk
(Crimea), under the stage direction of B., was
invited to join six productions of Ester-Rokhl
Kaminska. When the actor-revolutionary B.
created in Kremenchug a workers' studio, which
existed with little surprise, three years. That
worker-amateur-theatre that he also created in
Baku, also at times in the years 1920-1922. In
1922 he put together a troupe for Moscow, and as
B. detailed in his autobiography, there they
several times visited the well-known stage
director Meirchold (sp), and he very warmly
responded to our work, and about me personal
expressions like this: "Appearing yesterday in
Yiddish theatre, 'Uriel Acosta,' the artist
Brandesko, one finds that he is very
temperamental an is very unique." In the years
1923-1924 B. played for a long time in Minsk,
where at the same time he also performed in a
club using the name Groser. Then he joined a
Jewish state movable theatre from the Ukrainian
Soviet Republic.
According to Grisha
Grosman, in 1924 B. went to Guzik, and until
1927 toured with the troupe with [beidens nemen]
(including acting for a season in Moscow,
and a season in Leningrad), later founded a
troupe together with Spektarov. In 1931 he
participated in the state theatre "The Red
Hammer" under the direction of Fridman.
His future fate is
unknown.
Sh.E. and M.E. from David Reitz, Feinstein and
Grisha Grosman.
