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Malkah Rabell
(Rabinovitsh)
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Born in Warsaw, Poland.
Parents -- the Yiddish actors Betty and Leon Rabinowitz,
grandchild of the Yiddish theatrical guest-stars Aba and
Leah Kompaneyets. Her education was in Paris (France),
where she had, at the age of fourteen, participated for
a short time in youthful roles in Yiddish theatre.
In 1937, together with her
parents, she arrived in Mexico City, where she completed
a gymnasium, entering into the Polytechnium in a
chemistry facultat, however leaving the field and took
to studying in the philosophical facultat of the
National Mexican University. In 1944 she married the
writer Dr. Chaim Goldstreich, and settled down with him
in Argentina, and after twelve years, she came back to
Mexico City, where she continued to live.
In 1945 there was published,
in Spanish, her first novel "Oyfn shvel fun geto", and
in 1957 her second novel, "Shturem oyfn plata-teyd".
R. also is the composer of
two essay books (in Spanish): "Moderner yidisher teater",
issued through the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México (National Mexican University) (Mexico City,
1965), which brought an abbreviated history of Yiddish
theatre and the suppression of the various Yiddish art
troupes, as well as the Hebrew theatre in Israel, with
illustrations, and "because people laugh" (issued
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R. translated ten books in
Spanish, among them the secular theatre part of N.
Buchwald's book "Theatre" (issued through "Ikuf" in
Argentina, Buenos Aires, 18958), "Theatre Sociology" by
Jan Richard Bloch, and "Theatre and Life" by Nikolai
Yevreyinov (translated from the French).
R. is a contributor for the
major Spanish newspapers, such as "El Nacional", "El
Clarin", "Vea i Lea", "Davar", "Comentarios" et al
(Buenos Aires); "Novedades", Excelsior", "El Dia", "El
Nacional", "Tribuna Izraelita", "Revista del Politekniko",
et al (Mexico).
R. has held more than two
hundred presentations on literary themes, both in
Yiddish and in Spanish, in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and
Peru. She also gave a course on Mexican theatre in the
National Mexican University, and is a theatre critic for
the Mexican newspaper "El Dia".
Sh. E.
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Chaim Lazdeyski -- Tsvey
shpanishe bikher fun idishe mkhbrim farshafn ere idishn yshub in
meksike, "Kanader odler", Montreal, 24 November 1965. "Di idishe
prese", Buenos Aires, 20 December 1965.
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Zbulun berebitshez -- A vikhtiker
bukh vegn teater, "Der veg", Mexico, 20 December 1965.
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B. Kovalski -- A vegveyzer vegn
yidishn teater (in shpanish), "Der veg", May 1966.
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"El Teatro Judio Moderno", por
Miguel Guardia, en el periodico "Excelsior", Mexico, D. F.
November 1965.
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"El Teatro Judio Moderno", por
Angel Barcenas, en el periodico "El Nacional", January 1966.
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"El Teatro Israelita", periodico
"El Universal", Mexico, D. F., December 1965.
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"El Teatro Judio Moderno", por
Margarita Garcia Flores, periodico "El Dia", Mexico, D. F.,
January 1966.
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Malkah Rabell: "El Teatro Judio
Moderno", por H. B. Revista Siempre, Seccion "La Cultura en
Mexico", December 1965.
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"El Teatro Judio Moderno",
periodico Novedades, Seccion "Escaparate", January 1966.
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