Bessie Thomashefsky information

Bessie Thomashefsky (1873 – July 6, 1962), born Briche Baumfeld-Kaufman, was a Russian-born Jewish American singer, actress and comedian, a star in Yiddish...

Boris Thomashefsky (Russian: Борис Пинхасович Томашевский, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; Yiddish: באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי) (1868–July...

of the "bitter reminiscences" of rival prima donna Bessie Thomashefsky, wife of Boris Thomashefsky. [Adler, 1999, 85-86 (commentary)] Adler, Jacob, A...

Adlers and Keni Liptzin hung on doing classic theatre, but Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky returned to the earlier style, making a fortune off of what the Adlers...

respectively. He is the grandson of noted Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who performed in the Yiddish Theater District in Manhattan. The...

mshurr in 1899. In 1901 she guest-starred together with Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky in Berlin in Lateiner's Dovids fidele. After that, due to illness...

vaudeville houses and became successful enough to be hired to replace Bessie Thomashefsky in Edelstein's People's Theater where she played opposite David Kessler...

Thomashefsky, who had given her the leading role in his production over his own wife Bessie, and who eventually left him. Sigmund sued Thomashefsky for...

he joined Boris Thomashefsky's People's Theatre in the same season, where he landed roles in plays alongside Thomashefsky's wife, Bessie. Over the following...

who married Julius Adler. Irving played juvenile roles in Pinkhas Thomashefsky's troupe and later appeared in films by Sidney Goldin. He performed two...

Later on, Boris Thomashefsky performed the same play in Toronto under the name Fargesene froyen. Reingold claimed that Thomashefsky's 1927 operetta Bar...