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   Michal Michalesko

   

     

 

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Sitter
Michal Michalesko, November 26, 1884 - April 28, 1957

Date
unknown

Type
Portrait

Medium
Photograph

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Testimony
"Mr. Michalesko, a native of Russia, made his first stage appearance at the age of twelve. He played in [Yiddish] theatres in Russia, Poland, South America, and in London and Paris.

He was brought to the United States by the late Boris Thomashefsky and made his debut here in 1921.

He appeared in Yiddish operettas in Brooklyn, the Bronx and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With Alexander Olshanetsky and Louis Goldberg he leased the Public Theatre at Second Avenue and Fourth Street in 1931 for use as a legitimate Yiddish playhouse.

He established a Yiddish stage at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles in 1952."

Source of Testimony
-- "Michal Michalesko, Yiddish Actor, 72," New York Times, April 30, 1957

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