Sonia Alomis
Sonia Alomis , born Sonia Lubotski (born March 3 . Jul / 15. March 1896 . Greg in Vilnius , Russian Empire ; † 1. December 1976 in Forest Hills , New York City , New York , United States) was a Polish - American Theater actress .
Life
Alomis was born Sonia Lubotski in Vilnius, where her mother ran a restaurant. She attended the Yiddish-speaking Sofia Markovna Gurevich Gymnasium .
From 1918 she was married to the theater and film actor Alexander Asro (Orliuk), with whom she emigrated to the USA in mid-1923. They went to New York via Chicago and Los Angeles.
In 1926 her husband became a theater director in New York. Between 1929 and 1935 they were on a European tour together and were naturalized in 1929. They had a child.
She last lived in Forest Hills, New York, where she also died. Walter Sickert drew her in her role in Dybuk around 1922 .
reception
Carl Einstein wrote about her in a letter to Moise Kisling on November 1, 1921 :
“Last night I was in a Jewish theater: an actor from Vilna. That was great. They are currently playing Perez stuff etc. Hasidim stuff. You must have read novels by the Tharaut brothers about this, and I would love to read them too. What a well-formed people, these Jews. And they play well. You have an excellent actress, Sonja Alonnis. They also want to give performances in Paris. Can you help them? It's worth it. I'm going to live a little in this milieu of Jewish actors - to sleep with this Alonnis is worth it. "
"... the special sound with which" father "and" mother "are said like a mystery; Jewish, the classy strangeness of Sonia Alomis, who swirls a coquette in rags over the scene; Jewish perhaps the virtuosity with which almost everyone ... "
literature
- Rebekka Denz: Yiddish Sources, page 55 Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2008
Web links
- Sonia Alomi's picture
- Sonia Alomis (Lives in the Yiddish Theater)
- Alexander Asro and Sonia Alomis (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
Individual evidence
- ^ Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, Volume 1 , Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 1939, p. 553
- ↑ Heidelore Riss: Approaches to a History of the Jewish Theater in Berlin, 1889-1936 , Verlag P. Lang, 2000, ISBN 9783631366363 , page 115
- ↑ http://www.weblo.com/celebrity/available/Alexander_Asro/719358/
- ↑ http://deathdata.org/r/7107143/sonia-asro ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/54941
- ↑ Marianne Kröger: "Jewish Ethics" and Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War: Simone Weil ... , 2007 , ISBN 9783631591413 , page 85
- ^ Cultural identity from 1900 to the aftermath of the first ... - Elisabeth Albanis - Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alomis, Sonia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lubotski, Sonia (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American stage actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 1976 |
| Place of death | Forest Hills , New York City , New York , United States |