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Joseph Buloff
(Bulkin)
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B.
was born in 1899 [on December 6, according to his
daughter] in Vilna, Polish Lithuania. His father
was a merchant. B. received a Jewish-European education.
As a child, he already showed talent by imitating his
rabbi and his environment.
At
the age of thirteen he performed with amateurs. In 1919,
B. became a professional actor in Vilna, and after
acting in Lodz’s Dramatic Theatre with Kompaneyets for a
short while, B. joined the Vilna Troupe in Warsaw.
When
the troupe broke up, he ended up with the group managed
by Maze. While in Rumania, he played Sabtai Zvi - his
own adaptation of Asch’s “Sabtai zvi”- and in
Zulawski’s “The End of the Messiah”, and a totally new
production of
Dymov’s “The Singer of His Sorrow” (“Yoshke
muzikant [Yoshke the Musician]") adapted by Jacob
Sternberg which had 150 performances in Rumania.
In Rumania, B. married Luba Kadison, and in 1926 they
were both invited to America by Maurice Schwartz where
he appeared at the Yiddish Art Theatre as “Peretz” in
“Thou Shalt Not Covet”. In 1927-9, B. was the stage
director and actor of the “Jewish Literary Dramatic
Society” in Chicago as well as producing his translation
and adaptation of “A play and a name”[‘?] (based on Hebel’s [?] “The Diamond”). During that time, B. also
acted as the stage director of a local English amateur
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In 1929-30 B. was stage director and actor in the
Vilna Troupe [when they performed] in the Bronx, New York, where he
produced “Ger tzedek” (The Righteous Convert”), his
adaptation of Kacyzne’s
play “The Duke”.
B. also wrote "From
the Old Marketplace" (subtitle: A memoir of
laughter, survival and coming of age in Eastern
Europe), which was published posthumously in 1991 by
the Harvard University Press.
M. E.
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Jacob
Kirschenbaum - New faces on our stage,
"Morning Journal", 10
December,1926.
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Joseph Buloff - Pages from the
theatre archive, “U“Vort", Bucharest1, 1926.
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S. - Sabtai Zvi ( a mystic drama in 3
acts, adapted from Sh. Asch and J. Zulawski by J.
Buloff, directed by J. Buloff), Arb”Zt”
Czernowitz 211, 1926.
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Joseph Buloff - A letter about the
Vilna Troupe in Rumania,
"Literarishe
bleter", 59, 1925.
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Joseph Buloff -
Exposé
on the stage management [?] of “Sabtai Zvi” and
of “A play and a name”[‘?], Oyfbroyz
[?], Chicago.
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N. Buchwald- A Dymov play well
performed, “Frayhayt” 19 February 1927.
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Dr. D.
Mukdony -
“Yoshke muzikant”,
“Morning
Journal”,
18 February 1927.
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Dr. A. Margolin - Leivick's “Shop”
with Joseph Buloff’s production[?],“Yiddisher
Courier”, Chicago, 16 March 1928.
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Avremel - The drama “Ger zedek”
(The Righteous Convert”),
artistically directed by Buloff, [under Buloff’s
artistic direction?],”Redaktsie” [?],
“Yiddisher Courier”, Chicago, 16 November 1928.
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B. Smoliar - The Neglected Yiddish
Province, “The Yiddish Journal”, Toronto, 8 January
1929.
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Avremel - The dramatic society in
Moliere’s comedy, “Yiddisher Courier”, Chicago, 8
February 1929.
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Avrahamil- The dramatic society in L.
Poldos[?] “Old Guys”, "Yiddisher Courier”, Chicago, 3
May 1929.
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Dr. S. Melamed - Good morning,
“Yiddisher Courier”, 14 Iyar 1929.
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A. Leyeles - Around the theatre, “Di
wokh”, N.Y., 15 November, 1929.
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William Edlin - “Mord” [“Murder?]
performed by the Vilna Troupe, “Der tog”, N.Y., 8
November 1929.
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Dr. A.
Mukdony - Two surprises, "Morning Journal", N.Y., 15 November
1929.
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B. I. Goldstein - On Theatre
Avenue, “Freye arbeiter shtime”, 15 November 1929.
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D. Kaplan - “Mord” performed by the
Vilna Troupe, “Forward”, 8 November 1929
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B. I. Goldstein - On Theatre
Avenue, “Freye arbeiter shtime”, 3 January 1930..
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Dr. A.
Mukdony - The historical operetta, "Morning Journal", N.Y., 3
January 1930.
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Dr. A.
Mukdony -“Refined[?] spectacle”, "Morning Journal", N.Y., 17
January 1930.
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D. Kaplan - “Ger zedek” at the Vilna
Troupe in the Bronx, “Forward”, 20 December 1929.
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A. Leyeles - Around the theatre, “Di wokh”, N.Y., November 14
(1929?).
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William Edlin - “Ger zedek”,
interesting, strong drama performed by the Vilna
Troupe, “Der tog”, N. Y., 20 December 1929.
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Szabo Imre - Szomorusaganak Enedese
“Uj Kelet”, Bucharest, 10 July 1926.
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Thomas Van Dyke - New Drama in Yiddish
Art a Hit”, “The World”, N.Y. 20 February 1927.
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Dramatic in “Observer”, Chicago,
1929, pp. 61-66.
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