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
 

Tevye Khazak

Kh. was born on 7 November 1887 in Vitebsk, White Russia.

His father was a clock maker.

He completed a middle school.

Since 1917 he participated in "amateur" productions.

In 1922 he came into Mim"t and went on tour with them across Western Europe.

Kh. also participated as "Kimak" in the film "Yidishe glikn (Jewish Luck)" (1925), by Sholem Aleichem (Director -- Al. Granovsky).


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 953.
 

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