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
 

Eliyahu Margolius

According to Zalmen Reisen, M. in the years of 1886 to 1899 was an assistant editor for the Bucharest "Hivets"[?], afterwards editor of  "Dos folksblat" in Iasi.

In the trn'd--trn'd years, he issued the "Israelite folks-kalender" and wrote an entire folk song for the theatre repertory of the actors Bleichman, Simovitsh, Groper, Kaner et al.

M. composed a theatre piece "Ktsieh" trukene feygn, which was performed in the vaudeville houses. He also created a booklet in Hebrew called "Hrma'm vhmteym", and in Yiddish with Hebrew "Msha binyamin", a booklet about art pieces, [nbvah adg].

As an adult, M. immigrated to America, where he was accepted by the "wonder show"(?), read characters and found ideas [adg].

  • Lexicon of the New Yiddish Literature", New York, 1965, Volume 6, p. 96.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 7, page 6354.
 

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