Shimen Dzigan

Shimon Dzigan with his wife in 1958

Shimen Dzigan (Yiddish שמעון דזשיגאן, Polish Szymon Dżigan , born April 1, 1905 in Łódź , Russian Empire ; died April 14, 1980 in Tel Aviv ) was a Polish actor of the Yiddish theater and film.

Life

Dzigan was born the son of a Russian soldier. When the First World War broke out , he came to help a tailor's household.

In 1927 he came to the literary cabaret Ararat in Łódź and later to the Yiddish theater of the same name. With his acting partner Israel Schumacher he formed the comedian duo "Dżigan and Schumacher", which was very popular among the Yiddish-speaking population. In 1935 they founded the Nowości cabaret in Warsaw . Dżigan starred in three Yiddish films during the interwar period.

When robbery of the German Wehrmacht in Poland and Dzigan Shumacher fled to the Soviet- occupied Bialystok . They performed in Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk and other cities before sitting in a Stalinist gulag . From there both fled to Israel, where they had a long television career.

Filmography

1936: Al Khet (also site manager)
1937: Frejleche kabzonim
1939: On a hajm
1951: Undzere children (also screenwriter)

Autobiography

Shimen Dzigan: Der koyekh fun yidishn humor , Tel Aviv, 1974 (The autobiography can be read online in Hebrew script at openlibrary.org .)

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 from the English by Sonja Finck , in: Claudia Bruns , Asal Dardan, Anette Dietrich (eds.): "Which of the stones you lift ..." Cinematic memories of the Holocaust. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin 2012

Web links

Shimon Dzigan in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ 1946 - יוניונפדיה. Retrieved July 31, 2019 (Hebrew).
↑ YIVO | Dzigan and Shumacher. Accessed July 31, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Dzigan, Shimen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dzigan, Szymon; Dzigan, Shimon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish actor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Łódź , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1980
Place of death	Tel Aviv

[1] 1946 - יוניונפדיה. Retrieved July 31, 2019 (Hebrew).

[2] YIVO | Dzigan and Shumacher. Accessed July 31, 2019 .