Excerpts from In Fayer un Flamen: Togbukh fun a Yidisher Shoyshpilerin (In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Yiddish Actress) by Shoshana Kahan (Part II)

Translated and introduced by Sheva Zucker, edited by Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel for Women on the Yiddish Stage/Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.

These translations are part of a series devoted to Yiddish actresses in the Holocaust, published to mark Yom HaShoah and the eightieth commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Chayele Grober began her stage career as an actress with the Hebrew theatre “Habima.” She also performed as a solo artist in her own program of song, drama, and humor, in both Yiddish and Hebrew.

Chayele Grober began her stage career as an actress with the Hebrew theatre Habima. She also performed as a solo artist in her own program of song, drama, and humor, in both Yiddish and Hebrew.

Regina Prager was one of the first leading ladies of the Yiddish stage, known for her extraordinary operatic voice and her continued Jewish observance throughout her life.

Mikhl Yashinsky’s new one-act Yiddish play premiered at the Lower East Side Play Festival at the Stanton Street Shul in New York City on July 25, 2022.

The Yiddish Art Theatre in Plotting Yiddish Drama.

In his memoirs, Menashe Skulnik recalled the many years when he performed in cities outside of New York – including six years in Philadelphia, which he considered to be a theatrical purgatory.

Khine Braginskaya’s career, much like the career of her husband Avrom Fishzon, reflected almost all of the Yiddish theatre’s historical chapters.

Sixty years ago thoday, the Yiddish playwright, actress, theatre company founder, and salonnière Tea Arciszewska (c. 1890 – 1962) died in Paris.