Photographers
Metz Photo Studios
1525 Pitkin Avenue
Brooklyn, New York  

Sitter
Jacob Jacobs, January 2, 1890 - August 1, 1977

Date
unknown

Type
Portrait

Medium
Photograph

Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Testimony
"In 1904 Jacob arrived in America, worked in a soda factory, deliveromg soda-water, and later on worked in a sheet factory, and finally he studied tailoring. In 1907 he toured with a chorus in the vaudeville theatre, and on Sundays when then the vaudeville house was forbidden to play, he sang as a coupletist.

In 1908 he was engaged as a vaudeville actor; later he traveled about in vaudeville to read.

In 1911 Jacob also toured for the first time in a play: as "Zalmen" in Kobrin's "Yankel Boyle" at the Odeon Theatre.

In 1912 he took control of the directing at the Lyric Theatre in Brownsville, and after that partnered with Nathan Goldberg at the Lenox Theatre in Harlem. From 1926-30 he was co-director at the National Theatre.

In 1927-8 he also co-directed at the Prospect Theatre in the Bronx. In all the theatres he also was active as an actor. Jacob also composed couplets with some music. Jacob is married to Bettie Jacobs, daughter of the deceased Yiddish theatre director Treitler."

Source of Testimony
Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre," Volume 1, page 549, 1931.