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
 

     Froyke (Efrim) Podlubny
 

Born in Bratslav, Podolia Gubernia, Russia.

His father was a cantor.

He began in a chorus with Avraham Fishzon. Afterwards he became an actor and performed as a comic traveling around Russia and with Bronstein's troupe in Bessarabia.

In 1923 he was engaged in Rumania together with his wife and [shantanen], later acting in the Yiddish theatre in Paris.

P.'s daughter is a professional dancer.

His brother, Naum, is a composer and orchestra conductor in the Yiddish theatre.

His brother, Isaac, was an orchestra conductor for the Yiddish theatre who became a casualty at the time of the pogrom in the Ukraine in 1920-21.


Sh. E. from Chaim Tauber.

M. E. from China Braginska and Misha Fishzon, "Yiddish Theatre", Warsaw, 1, 1924.

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 3, page 1697.
 

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