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   Helen Beda

   

     

 

Photographers
Ivan Busatt Studio

Sitter
Helen Beda, 1897 - August 8, 1985

Date
unknown

Type
Portrait

Medium
Photograph

Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Testimony
"Helen was born in 1897 in Czestochowa, Poland. She and her family moved to London and there, Helen joined a chorus in the Yiddish theatre. Her first role was as “Tsinele” in Solotorefsky's "Der yeshive bokhur (The Yeshiva Boy)," at the time of the guest appearance of Jacob Silbert.

Helen was then engaged in Paris by Axelrod where she had the opportunity to perform with guest star Jacob Liebert. From Paris she went to America, where she spent one season playing with Joseph Shoengold in the Lyric Theatre in Brooklyn, and the rest of the time elsewhere appearing in Chicago as "Meyte" in Hirshbein’s "Puste kretshme (The Idle Inn)" with Jacob Ben-Ami."

In 1928-9 Helen performed in Boston, and in 1929-30 she played in Newark for Bernard Elving."

Source of Testimony
Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre," Volume 1, p. 159, 1931.

Related Exhibitions
Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre

 


 

 

 

 

 

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