Boris Thomashefsky
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Boris Thomashefsky, born Baruch-Aaron Thomashefsky, was a Ukrainian–American Yiddish theater actor, director, manager, and composer.
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Boris and Bessie Thomashevsky's engagement portrait, 1890
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
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…Mogulesko, David Kessler, and Jacob Adler, with new plays by playwrights such as Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz. In 1887, playing in Baltimore, he met 14-year-old Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman, when she came backstage to meet the beautiful young "actress" she had seen on stage, only to discover that "she" was Boris. Bessie soon ran away from…
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Bessie Thomashefsky