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
 

Moshe-Dovid Vidrevitsh


Vidrevitsh was born on 18 January 1867 in Vitebsk, White Russia.

His father was a businessman who gave him a traditional education.

After his wedding he tried trade, but he hadn't any success, and in the course of thirty years he was a Hebrew teacher in Warsaw.

From time to time he apparently wrote in the Hebrew and Yiddish press.

V. composed the one-act, "Iṭshe Meir tsu di ṿahlen," "Di yudishe gmyne," and "Der shumd," which was performed for the Yiddish theatre in Poland.

  • Z. Reisen -- "Lexicon of Yiddish Literature," Vol. I, p. 927.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 668.

His amended biography exists in Volume 5, pag 4401.
 

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