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
 

Jacob Jacobson (II)

A designer of women's clothing[?] in New York.

He composed a drama "Hershende shklafn", which in 1911 was staged with great success by Kessler in Kessler's Second Avenue Theatre.

The play was based on an event of the author.


M. E. from Sholem Perlmutter.

B. Gorin -- "History of the Yiddish Theatre", from the playlist.


 

 

 

 

 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 551.
 

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