Itsik
Zandberg (1912) and debuted there as the leading lady in
I.L. Boymvol’s operetta Dr. Zeyfnbloz. F.
performed there for two seasons and until the outbreak
of the First World War (1914) when she departed for
Pinsk. In 1915, she participated in [appeals?] in
Odessa. In 1917, she retreated, together with the
troupe, to Baku and with Theatre Verita, (Veysblat),
Zhelazo and Nozhik, they founded a professional Yiddish
artistic union.
F. moved over to a
cooperative troupe in Ekatarinoslav with Libert and
Zaslavski as directors. In 1918, she departed for
Kiev and performed there in the Operetta-Troupe with
Pepi Litman in the greatest performances of the
dramatic repertoire. From there, she went to the
Kharkov “Our Corner” as the lead actress, and in
1920 she went with the theatre to Vitebsk, and after
to Minsk. When the troupe fell apart in autumn 1921,
she went to Moscow, where she tried out in the
miniature Borokhov Club and song-evenings, and when
she opened there in 1922, with the help of a patron,
a comedy theatre, “Sholem Aleichem,” she performed
there as Golde in Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye the
Dairyman. The production was not a hit, and
after three weeks, the theatre closed. Together with
some others, she founded a theatre-studio with the
name “Sholem Aleichem,” with A. Diki as director,
which produced Purim in Kasrilevke according
to Sh.E. (where she played two roles, Nechama the
Black One and the Mistress of the Breadbox.)
F. was occupied with
running the studio from morning to night, standing
guard so that no revolt would, God forbid, destroy
her one hope, but the studio fell apart because she
had no state support, and a private undertaking in
such circumstances could not exist.
F. performed solo in the
Polytechnic Museum with adaptations that she created
herself, and afterwards, she traveled around with
that repertoire through White Russia. At the end of
1924, she was asked by the Kiev Commission,
“Children’s Aid,” to give some miniature-evenings,
which were extraordinarily successful. Thanks to
that, she received an invitation from the Kiev
(cultural program?) union to organize a theatre
according to the model of her evenings. This
theatre, which was named “Vezker,” under the
direction of Strikovski, began productions in
January 1925 in the Kiev club “Kompon,” and then
traveled around the province, dissolving after six
months due to lack of repertoire. F. traveled
further around White Russia as a singer of art
songs, and then to the bigger cities in Russia.
Dr. A. Mukdoni writes:
“There, in Lodz, (1912)
plays were produced that we raised by hand, that is
to say, in the dramatic section of the (Warsaw)
Hazomir and that was Ms. Fibich. She was young and
elegant and gave us, as they say, good hope.
According to my notes that I took concerning her,
she became a very popular Jewish actress of the
better type. She is in Russia.”
Sh. Shneyfal writes:
“In Kiev, there was
(1924) a mobile theatre of humor and satire
(literary director—Sh. Sneyfal) where a leading
actress was the recently deceased, highly talented
artist, Sore Fibich.”
In her diary, In Fire
and in Flames, the actress Shoshana writes
(November 30, 1939):
“Today, the actress Sore
Fibich arrived (in Bialystok) from Russia with a
Russian troupe. Formerly, she performed in Warsaw.
Our actors know her. I have only heard of her. She
brought us many greetings from friends, and we
celebrated with her.”
The theatre-lover
Yehoshua Feyl writes:
"In the last fifteen
years she performed as a singer in concerts of
Yiddish song, she had great success, but then she
died too soon, in 1947.”
F. translated Hamlet
by Shakespeare, Johanna’s Fire by Zunderman,
the operetta Boccaccio, Madame X, Autumn
Fields, and Wings.
She died in 1947.
Sh.E.
from Dr. Mukdoni, Sh. Sneyfal, Shoshana, Yehoshua
Feyl.
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