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
 

Chana Troyman
(Kats)

 

T. was born on 16 March 1894 in Warsaw, Poland.

In 1910 she traveled to Paris, where she began to act in an "amateur" group under the direction of Mark Arnstein, performing as "Bentshik" in Jacob Gordin's "Skhith".

Until 1913 she acted as an "amateur" and then began to act professionally with Jacob Spivakovski, making a tour across Belgium until the outbreak of the war, when she came back to Paris, where she acts until today.
 

Sh. E.

 

 


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 2, page 891.
 

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