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Sarah Kindman
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Born on 2 July 1901 in
Dzhurkov, Eastern Galicia. Her father was a briner. She
finished elementary school and learned German and
Yiddish privately.
She arrived in America in
the year 1913. She worked in a shop with blouses, while
at the same time becoming a member in a dramatic union,
where she played in their productions.
On 13 April 1921 K. debuted
as a professional actress, portraying "Lucy" in the
play, "Di vilde," by Z. Libin, in Max Gabel's theatre in
New York.
She took a course in diction
and acting with Jacob Mestel, and K. acted from
1922-1926 with Sara Adler across the province and
participated in 1927 in Max Reinhardt's New York guest
performances.
From 1928-1929 she acted in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; In 1931-32 in Baltimore and
Philadelphia (Director S. Dickstein); 1932-33 in the
Lyric Theatre, Brooklyn (Director F. Kanapof); from 1934
until 1939 in the "Federal Theatre Project" (in
Hirshbein's "The Idle Inn" in English; the main role of
"Mary Greenhill" in the Yiddish production of Upton
Sinclair's "It Can't Happen Here," and David Pinski's
"The Tailor Becomes a Shopkeeper.")
In 1940 K. played in the
National Theatre in New York (under the direction of
Jacob Ben-Ami and Jacob Mestel), in 1945 in the Folks
Theatre, and since then she has performed with
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In 1929 K. put out a book of
songs entitled, "Meydishe gezangen" (publisher
Yaṭshḳoṿsḳis, Warsaw). She also translated into
Yiddish "A briv fun an umbakanter" by Stefan Zweig
(published in the "New Yorker Vokhnblat," 1934), and "Tsvey
Ssrbishe Zzgas" (published in the "Badn" Journal, 1936),
and she wrote sketches for radio.
In 1957 in New York she
published her book of songs, "Fananderbli" [63 pp.].
K. is the wife of Jacob
Mestel (who passed away on 6 August 1958.)
Sh. E.
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Uriel Maik -- A
yunge idishe aktrise mit a sukh farshprekhungen,
"Tog," N. Y., 25 April 1921.
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Jacob
Kirschenbaum -- In der velt fun teater, "Amerikaner,"
N. Y., 19 March 1926.
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M. Melamed --
Literarishe notitsn, "Yidishe velt,"
Philadelphia, 21 April 1929.
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P. Viernik --
Unzer filshprakhige literatur, "Morgn zhurnal,"
N. Y., 9 June 1929a
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B. Heker -- Sarah
kindman, di dopelte dikhterin, "Passaic County
Yiddish Record," 4 November 1932.
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Dr. L. Zhtnitsky
-- A froy zingt oys ir troyer, "Prese," Buenos
Aires, 15 July 1936.
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Jacob Mestel -- "Unzer
teater," N. Y., 1943, pp. 167.
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Boaz Young -- "Mayn
lebn in teater," N. Y., 1950, pp. 387.
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Kalman Marmor --
"Yakov gordin," N. Y., 1953, pp. 70, 135 and
211.
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Sarah Barkan --
Sarah kindman's bukh lider "fananderbli," "Morgn
frayhayt," N. Y., 1 September 1957.
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Martin Birnbaum
-- Srah kindman's lider-zamlung "fananderbli," "Zamlungen,"
N. Y., 13, 1957, pp. 120-121.
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Esther Katz --
Vegn sarah kindman's bukh lider "fananderbli," "Zamlungen,"
N. Y., 14, 1958, pp. 122-23.
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Mina Borda-Rivkin
-- "Lider un iberblikn," Buenos Aires, 1958, pp.
86-87.
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