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
 

M. Lipson
(Mordechai Yavorovsky)
 


Lipson was born on April 7, 1885 in Bialystok, Poland. 

Until he was fifteen years old he studied in modern cheders. After that he attended the Radiner Yeshiva. 

In 1905 he moved to Antwerp where he became a Hebrew instructor. Following  that, he worked in the diamond industry.  At the same time he became involved with the commercial side of the diamond industry.

He made his debut as a writer in 1907, in Hebrew, and in 1912 he began to write in Yiddish. 

In 1913 he came to America where he wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew and translated several important works of Yiddish authors into Hebrew. Lipson also put out two volumes of sayings and jokes entitled “The People Tell” (Dos folk dertzeylt).

He moved to Eretz Yisrael in 1930. 


In "Literaishe bleter", Warsaw 1932, pp. 35-29.

[Lekht] "Der Sgi Nhur[?] (dramatic program in two scenes), [vos ruft aroys a diskusye].....

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1106.
 

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