Israel Grodner
Israel Grodner (born around 1840 in Lithuania ; died 1887 in London ) was a Yiddish actor, singer and theater director.
Life
Israel Grodner was born into a Jewish family in Lithuania in the Russian Empire . He became a member of the Yiddish Broder Singers , with whom he toured Russia and Austria.
In 1876 he was the main actor in Abraham Goldfaden's theater in Iași in its first Yiddish theater performances. Soon afterwards he founded his own Yiddish theater in Iași . Joseph Latiner wrote the scenarios for him .
In 1883 he went to London after the ban on Yiddish theaters in Russia. There he played in the ensemble of Jacob Adler . After a while he went to Galicia, where he founded his own theater, with which he a. a. toured in Vienna, Warsaw and London. He died in London in 1887.
literature
- Israil Bercovici : O sută de ani de teatru evreiesc în România ( One hundred years of Jewish theater in Romania ). 2nd Edition. Bucharest 1998, ISBN 973-98272-2-5 , pp. 59-61
- Jacob Pavlovich Adler : A Life on the Stage: A Memoir . New York 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0 , pp. 36 f., 69, 77 f., 135 f., 243 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grodner, Israel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yiddish actor, singer and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lithuania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1887 |
| Place of death | London |