L. was born on 4 June 1886
in Lodz, Poland. Her father was a tailor. She learned at
home. Through her sister and brother, who had acted in
the theatre, she was taken to Zdunska Wola in 1903,
where she acted as "Serafina" in "Bar kokhba" and, due
to bad business, she went home from there on foot. For
two years she worked as a [stacker=shtoperke] in
a factory and then was taken into the chorus of
Zandberg, and more than a half-year later (1905) she
organized the chorus as a troupe which traveled to Bendin to act. In Radom the local troupe united with a
second troupe, which consisted of members of the Warsaw
Yiddish theatre chorus (Loshe kutner -- later German,
Chana Foderman, Malka Riten, Dina Shayevitsh, Misha
German, M. Bulman, Max Brin and Flaum) and they traveled
together to Lomza, where L. already performed in the
first roles of Gordin's "Pertuar".
Here L. married actor Leon
Rabinovitsh. In 1907 she acted in Bialystok and later
went on tour across Poland and Volin, and in Bialystok
performed in the American repertoire that Julius Adler
had brought. Later she crossed over to the troupe of Spivakovski and toured across Russia, Ukraine, Latvia
and Kurland. From Homel she went over to Genfer in Vilna
and then acted with Clara Young in Yekaterinoslav. Due
to her family situation, she traveled to Lodz and there
was taken into the troupe of Adler-Sierotsky, where she
acted until 1920 and since then across various ... in
Poland together with her second husband, the prompter
Blat.
On 8 July 1932 L. passed
away in Lodz.
Sh. E.
V. Neyhoyz -- Regina
lyubartovska, "Neyer folksblat", Lodz, 10 July 1932. |
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