Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
 SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE yIDDISH THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"
 1931-1967
 

Jennie Masoff
 

  

She was born in 1890 in Bucharest, Romania.

Her father was a prompter.

At the age of thirteen she performed in a chorus of the Yiddish theatre.

In 1906 she married actor Samuel Masoff and since then changed roles, and together with her husband formed a small itinerant troupe in which she plays up into the present.


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Translated from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 1226.
 

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