Bessie Thomashefsky
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Bessie Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-American Yiddish theater actress and comedian. She was the wife and stage partner of Boris Thomashefsky, the most popular Yiddish leading actor of the era. Probably
Bessie Thomashevski
Boris and Bessie Thomashevsky, their engagement photo
Bessie Thomashefsky
The Yiddish King Lear
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The Yiddish King Lear was an 1892 play by Jacob Gordin, and is generally seen as ushering in the first great era of Yiddish theater in New York City's Yiddish Theater District, in which serious drama
Bessie Thomashefsky
…Pintele Yid (A Little Spark of Jewishness, 1909), became a director of the Federal Theater's Yiddish Theater Project and directed his father in films The Jewish King Lear (1934) and The Bar Mitzvah Boy (1935). Their second son, known as Mickey, took after his father's romancing ways and romanced two women at the same…
Poster for an 1898 production of The Yiddish King Lear starring Jacob Adler.
Jacob Gordin, the writer of The Yiddish King Lear
The Yiddish King Lear (1934)