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
 

Vampira Leoneska


L. was born in 18.... in Bucharest, Rumania, into a Christian family.

She acted in the Rumanian National Theatre.

In 1907 she came to America and in New York performed in Yiddish in Moliere's "Der karger (The Miser)" and in "Shuldik" by Richard Foss.
 

M. E. from Itsikl Goldenberg.


 

 

 

 

 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1132.
A second version of Vampira's biography appears in Lexicon, Vol. 6. You can read it by clicking here.
 

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