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G. was born on 10 September
1899 in Lemberg, Galicia. Her parents were the Yiddish
actors Karlik. She began to act in children's roles, and
later, as an adolescent, remaining a Yiddish actress. When the actor Morris Gelber was brought to Lemberg from
London, there developed a love between them, and
they were married. They traveled in order to act in London and
Paris, where she had a great success. Then she
guest-starred together with her mother across Europe,
including with the director Jacobi in Krakow. She
traveled to act in Argentina, and here in 1928 organized
the troupe that consisted of Morris and Rose Brown,
Morris and Genia Gelber, Aaron Aleksandrof, Leon and
Celia Zuckerberg, which after performed across the
Argentinean province charged out across
the South and Central American countries with Yiddish
theatre productions, until they came to Mexico, where
they made their homes.
G. was a fine mother- and
character actress with a natural husband. She was
generally a smart woman, and in the last years after her
husband's death and after the decline of a stable
Yiddish theatre in Mexico, she maintained herself as a
advertising/commercial agent.
Her son, Heniek, who had passed
away on 8 November 1968 in Mexico City, had acted in
children's roles.
On 7 February 1966 G. passed
away in Mexico City.
M. E. from
Morris Brown.
Necrology in "Di idishe
shtime". |