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

1931-1969
 

Abraham Frank

 

F. was born on 5 February 1900 in Cincinnati, America. He was the son of the actors Jacob (Yakov) and Anna (Chana) Frank.

He learned with a melamed, and completed public school. As a child he acted with his parents in their itinerant ways across America, and later until he was twenty-one years old acted in adolescent roles as a buff-comic. He retired from the theatre and became an artist.
 

M. E. from Jacob Frank.

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 6, page 4978.
 

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