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and "Benye Kendzsher" --
a thousand times without the three robbers ... although
Farbo was assured that his Benye is a prince against
Motke in all relations. "
In 1929 in Warsaw's
"Khoykes" Publishing House, there was published Farbo's
drama in three acts, "Di velt gayt unter," which was
never performed.
About the drama Zalman Reisen
writes:
"It deals with the urge of the modern
woman to free herself more and more from her duties as a
wife and mother, and to lead an independent life."
Y. Papyernikov portrays it as such:
"In my
eyes he (Farbo) does not appear as a writer, but more
like an eternal Russian student, an "externik,"
who used to let grow a beard and long hair and is
secretly dealing with partisan revolutionary work. Farbo
has, what a truth, maintained his black beard, with a
black head of hair, carefully underwhelmed, but with
everything he thought that the only thing missing was a
black "robushka" with a red
belt over the waist, so that he would look like one of
revolutionary worker types. ... how the non-Jewish Farbo
looked to my eyes, looking so authentically Jewish, he
was heard, even though he spoke very little, and not
with everyone, but -- very passionately, I would even
say: with the Jewish vehemence of a kshieurf.
As I found out later, his
infamous comments were like that of many writers
against the ignorance towards him on the part of the
crowned and self-crowned, who wrongly -- more than
rightly -- moved up to the "Eastern Wall," to the
top of Yiddish literature in Poland, captured, it is
said, the belemer with the
amud, and divided
themselves, "elyus" one
another ...
Before the outbreak of the
Second World War, Alexander Farbo suddenly became
strongly religious and wrote a mystical,
philosophical work that did not live to see the
beautiful light.
As we were told by Farbo's
son, the artist Yitzhak Farbo, who already has lived
for several years in Safed -- the death of his
father was mysterious and unclear; on one night he
suddenly collapsed at home and went to the hospital
the next morning. It happened in the Warsaw Ghetto
in the year 1940."
According to news from
Vilna, Farbo passed away in Warsaw on 29 March 1940.
Farbo's published works are:
1)
Elchasnador Farbo, Benye Kendzsher, a drama in three
acts. "Vanderer" Publishing House, Warsaw, 1929,
(16o, 73 pages).
2) Elchasnador Farbo, Di
velt gayt unter, a drama in three acts, "Khoykes"
Publishing House, Warsaw, 1929 (16o, 87 pages).
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Z.
Reisen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre," Volume
III, page 17.
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Melech Ravitch -- "Mayn leksikon," Montreal,
1945, pages 191-93.
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B.
Kutcher -- "Geven amol varshe," Paris, 1955, p.
322.
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Y.
Papyernikov -- "Haymishe un noente," Tel Aviv,
1958, pages 248-50.
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