Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE yIDDISH THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1967
 

Ema Dreyzina

Born on 30 July 1904 in Minsk, White Russia.

Her father was a plotter[?][plan-tseykhner], her mother a tailor.

She finished a gymnasium, and then as a student also participated in Russian in the school productions.

In 1920 she performed in a Russian theatre studio in Minsk.

In 1921 she participated in Yiddish productions, in which she was engaged by a group of amateur students led by M. Rapelsky.

When, in 1926, the studio became transformed into Vi"mt, D. automatically went over to the personnel of this theatre.


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 571.
 

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