Israel Schumacher

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Israel Schumacher ( Yiddish ישראל שומאַכער; Polish Izrael Szumacher ; English Ysrael Shumacher ; born in 1908 in Łódź , Russian Empire ; died May 21, 1961 in Tel Aviv ) was a Jewish actor in Poland and Israel.

Life

Israel was born in Łódź in 1908.

In 1927 he came to the newly founded Yiddish Theater Ararat in Łódź. There he began to appear with his colleague Shimen Dzigan as the comedian duo Dżigan and Szumacher . In 1935 the two founded the Nowości cabaret in Warsaw . Israel starred in the Yiddish films Al Chejt (1936), Frejleche kabzonim (1937) and On a hejm (1939).

In 1939 he and Dzigan fled to Białystok , which was occupied by the Soviets. They performed in different cities such as Moscow , Leningrad and Minsk . They were later both sent to a gulag . After their release, they went to Israel, where they enjoyed great success. They had their own TV show there.

He died in Tel Aviv in 1961.

literature

  • Gabriel N. Finder: Undzere children. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 216-219.
  • Gabriel Finder: Surviving Children in the Collective Memory of Polish Jews after the Holocaust: The Example of UNDZERE KINDER. Translated by Sonja Finck , in: Claudia Bruns , Asal Dardan, Anette Dietrich Hgg .: "Which of the stones you lift ..." Cinematic memories of the Holocaust. Bertz + Fischer Verlag , Berlin 2012

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notes

  1. ↑ The film "Undzere Kinder", first in Yiddish, describes an encounter between the two returned entertainers and survivors in a Jewish children's home on the outskirts of Łódź after 1945.
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES שומאַכער, ישראל (Yiddish); Szumacher, Izrael (Polish); Shumacher, Ysrael (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1961
Place of death Tel Aviv