Ukrainian-born American actor and singer (1868–1939)
For the Russian scholar, see Boris Tomashevsky.
Boris Thomashefsky
באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי
Born
Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky in
1866
Died
July 9, 1939(1939-07-09) (aged 72–73)
Occupation(s)
Actor, creator of Yiddish theatre, publisher, educator
Spouse
Bessie Thomashefsky 1891–1939 (separated 1911)
Children
4
Boris Thomashefsky (Russian: Борис Пинхасович Томашевский, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; Yiddish: באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי) (1868[1]–July 9, 1939), born Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky, was a Ukrainian-born (later American) Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theater.
Boris and Bessie Thomashevsky, their engagement photo
BorisThomashefsky (Russian: Борис Пинхасович Томашевский, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; Yiddish: באָריס טאָמאשעבסקי) (1868–July...
theater beginning in the 1890s. She was the wife and stage partner of BorisThomashefsky, the most popular Yiddish leading man of his era. Probably her most...
the "bitter reminiscences" of rival prima donna Bessie Thomashefsky, wife of BorisThomashefsky. [Adler, 1999, 85-86 (commentary)] Adler, Jacob, A Life...
socialist take on the 1889 Johnstown flood written while working with BorisThomashefsky in Chicago.[citation needed] The most successful of his "zeit piessen"...
a request for chocolat et crème from someone, possibly the actor BorisThomashefsky who had experienced a similar drink in Paris. His heavy accent altered...
before heading to New York City, where he performed with Jacob Adler, BorisThomashefsky, Max Morrison, and others. He loved the New York Yiddish audience...
1879–1945), theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer BorisThomashefsky (1868–1939), Ukrainian-born American singer, actor, Yiddish theater...
great BorisThomashefsky in The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a concert stage show celebrating the Thomashefskys and...
number of well-known figures of the American Yiddish theatre such as BorisThomashefsky, Louis Gilrod, Isidore Lillian, Jacob Jacobs, and Rubin Doctor. He...
United States a few months later. The month Regina arrived she joined BorisThomashefsky's People's Theater in the Bowery, where she was billed as the "Austrian...
performed with such artists as Moishe Oysher, Alexander Olshanetsky, BorisThomashefsky, Fyvush Finkel, and Abe Ellstein. The height of her popularity was...
and chief executive of the Elias Sports Bureau for seven decades BorisThomashefsky (1866–1939), Ukrainian-born Jewish singer and actor who became one...
Bowery Garden, the National and the Thalia, with unknowns such as BorisThomashefsky emerging as stars. The Thalia Theatre sought to change the material...
Garden Theatre constructed in Hunter, New York by Yiddish theater star BorisThomashefsky. A cradle of American Jewish comedy since the 1920s, the Borscht Belt...
Theatre, and they toured together in 1910. When she was hired by BorisThomashefsky as an understudy for the New York People’s Theater, and she signed...
Yiddish theater in New York began in 1882 with a troupe founded by BorisThomashefsky. The plays in the late 19th century were realistic, while in the beginning...
play The Pogrom in Russia was produced in January 1892 by the actor BorisThomashefsky. In June 1892, Gordin signed a contract with Jacob Pavlovich Adler...
cultural influence in the city, began in 1882 with a troupe founded by BorisThomashefsky, an immigrant from Ukraine. The plays in the late 19th century were...
from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2010. "BorisThomashefsky (1868-1939)". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved December 16, 2010...
hundreds of songs for the theatre which were performed by such actors as BorisThomashefsky, David Kessler, and Jacob Adler, as well as by Lillian himself. Isidore...
discovered in Buenos Aires by Yiddish theater legend, producer and actor BorisThomashefsky, who was starring in the area, when she was just five or eight years...
native language according to the 2001 census: Agapius Honcharenko BorisThomashefsky, American Jewish singer and actor Moïse Haissinsky, French Jewish...
in the Yiddish theatre in New York, working with such notables as BorisThomashefsky, David Kessler, Bertha Kalich and Jacob P. Adler and was director...
associated with David Kessler, Zigmund Feinman, Zigmund Mogulesko, BorisThomashefsky, and Jacob Adler. He also managed the Thalia Theatre, and the People's...
back to Poland in 1921.: 75 Brought to the United States in 1923 by BorisThomashefsky and signed to a 20-year recording contract by Columbia Records, he...
New York's Yidishe kunst teater (Jewish art theater) and then in BorisThomashefsky's National Theater and then Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and the...
Pinski Chicago + 1 February 25–April 9, 1938: 389 Uptown and Downtown BorisThomashefsky and Cornblatt New York January 1, 1935 – June 17, 1936: 389 We Live...
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