Devorah Rosenblum
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Born on 6 December 1909 in
Vilna, Polish Lithuania. Father -- a printer. She
completed the first Yiddish folkshul under the
name of Shimeon Frug, then the eight-class Sofia
Markova's Yiddish gymnasium, at the same time a
five-year course from the ballet school under the
direction of Helena Lashkovitsh and studied in the
dramatic school with the Polish theatre "Reduta".
In 1928 R. began to perform
as a dancer on the Yiddish and Polish stage, 1930 --
took to acting in Yiddish theatre with Clara Young, and
in the same year acted with the Vilna "operetta
ensemble". 1931 -- entered into the "Vilna Troupe"
(leader -- M. Mazo), with whom she went on tour across
Western Europe and married a member of the troupe Nakhum
Melnik.
In 1934, when a part of the
members of the "Vilna Troupe" decided to split in
London, she and her husband returned to Poland, due to
the contamination of the Jews from the former Polish
government, held back from this, and remaining outside a
theatre troupe, they passed over(?) the programs of
small-arts, for which the time oysgevaksn the "Rozenblum
-- Melnik theatre: the theatre of two". Both became in
1936 invited to South America, where they directed and
participated in a large program of small-arts and plays
of artistic content. They acted in Buenos Aires in
the "Ift" Theatre, and enriched at the same time their
small-arts program.
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After a tour across South
and Central America, she arrived in America in 1946,
acted for ten weeks in New York, and managed four tours
across the United States and Canada. In 1953 for two
years they went on a world tour across Central and South
America, Europe and Israel.
R. then performed from time
to time in New York with word concerts.
Sh. E.
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E. V. -- A kinsterishe
farshtelung, "Unzer fraynt", Montevideo, 30 June
1936.
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Wolf Bresler -- "Hi-gelebt",
"Morgentsaytung", Buenos Aires, 31 August 1936.
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Shmuel Rozhansky -- Revi
mit a tsugob fun der alter heym, "D.A.'Ts", Buenos
Aires, 31 August 1936.
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W. Bresler -- "Der
oytser", Buenos Aires, 28 September 1936.
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W. B. -- "Dos lebn ruft",
same, 4 October 1936.
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T. Beylin -- [Dr. L.
Zhitnitsky] -- notitsn un bamerkungen, "Di prese",
Buenos Aires, 19 March 1937.
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T. Beylin -- Notitsn un
bamerkungen, same, 17 December 1937.
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T. Beylin -- Notitsn un
bamerkungen, same, 31 December 1937.
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Yankev Botoshansky --
Tsvishn farhang in leyvnt, "Dats", 7 April 1939.
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T. Beylin -- Notitsn un
bamerkungen, "Di prese", Buenos Aires, 2 June 1939.
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M. Yardeni -- Fir yunge
khzn'tes in klinton teater un ershter oyftrit fun 2
gest shoyshpiler fun argentine, "Der tog", N. Y., 31
October 1946.
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N. M. [Meisel] --
Devorah rozenblum un nakhum melnik, "Yidishe kultur",
N. Y., N' 10, 1949.
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