Ajzyk Samberg

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Ajzyk Samberg (born February 22, 1889 in Warsaw , † November 4, 1943 in the Poniatowa camp ) was a Polish actor and director of Jewish origin.

Life

Ajzyk Samberg was born as Ajzyk (Isaac) Samborek . From 1907 he played in Abraham Kamiński's Yiddish theater in Warsaw . Since 1913 he also starred in some of his silent films. In 1920 he was briefly interned. He then played with the Vilnius Troupe , later in the Polish Teatr Nowości and Teatr Ludowy, as well as the Yiddish Theater of Esther Kamińska in Warsaw.

He made frequent guest appearances in Jewish theaters in Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay, and the United States . He also played in various theaters in the Warsaw Ghetto . Samberg was married to the actress Helena Gotlib .

He was murdered in the Poniatowa camp in 1943 as part of the mass murderous harvest festival of the National Socialists . In this camp, too, he occasionally played for the other inmates on the evening after the forced labor.

Filmography

  • 1913: Hertsele meyukhes ( Polish Fatalna klątwa )
  • 1913: Zayn vaybs man (Polish Bigamistka )
  • 1916: Zayn vaybs man (Polish: Małżeństwo na rozdrożu )
  • 1928: Pan Tadeusz
  • 1936: Al Khet
  • 1937: The Purim Player (Polish Błazen purymowy )
  • 1937: The Dybbuk (The Dibuk)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theater Eldorado, Theater Odeon, New Azazel Theater, cf. Barbara Engelking, Jacek Leociak: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City . Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-300-11234-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ Nahma Sandrow: Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater ; Syracuse University Press, 1996, ISBN 0815603290 , page 348
personal data
SURNAME Samberg, Ajzyk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samberg, Isaac; Samborek, Ajzyk (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw , Poland
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1943
Place of death Poniatowa camp , Poland