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HistoryFigure1899–1980

Region: Varsovie / Odessa / New York

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Born in Odessa in 1899, major figure of Yiddish theater, director of troupes (including the Jewish State Theater of Poland). She translated and adapted dozens of plays into Yiddish, wrote two herself, and published her autobiography My Life, My Theatre (1973). Nominated for an Oscar for The Shop on Main Street (1965).

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