masoff/samuel

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

Samuel Masoff

He was born in 1883 in Rumania.

His father was a bookseller.

From childhood he considered the stage.

At the age of seventeen he began to act with "amateurs", and since 1903 with professionals in the troupes of Segalesco and Goldenberg.

Later he became the leader of small provincial troupes in Rumania.

Sh. E.

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