HISTORIES OF THE YIDDISH PLAYWRIGHTS

From "high art" to "shund," their treasured works gave life to the representation of the Jewish experience throughout the world and of family life.
I have provided links below to the English translation of many their biographies from Zylbercweig's opus, the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre."

 

Abraham Goldfaden	Sholem Aleichem	Jacob Gordin
Yosef Latayner	I.L. Peretz	Leon Kobrin
H. Leivick	David Pinski	Sholem Asch
Peretz Hirshbein	Osip Dymow	Sholom Ansky
Z. Libin	Abraham S. Shomer	I.J. Singer
"Professor" Horowitz	Semyon Yushkevitch	N.M.  Shaykevitsh ("Shomer")
Sholem Perlmutter	Fishl Bimko	Yitskhok Dov Berkowitz
Abraham Blum	Isidore Solotorefsky	William Siegel
Harry Kalmanowitz	Aaron Nager	Isidore Lash
Israel Rosenberg	Mark Arnshteyn	Shlomo Steinberg
Meyer Schwartz	Isidore Lillian	Nakhum Stutchkoff
Chone Gottesfeld	Aaron Zeitlin	Leo Robbins
David Bergelson	Samuel H. Cohen	Harry Sackler
Zise Kornblith	Isidor Friedman	Simon Wolf