Photographers
Ivan Busatt Studio

Sitter
Seymour Rechtzeit, January 18, 1908 - October 14, 2002

Date
circa 1945

Type
Portrait

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Testimony
"His father was a cantor. After his son’s birth, he moved to Lodz. There the child studied in a a cheder and in a state-run school. As a child he joined his brother Yankev and sister Helen in concerts and even appeared in one-man performances as a “wunderkind” (a child protégé). Later, he traveled throughout Europe, and in 1920 he came to America."

Source of Testimony
Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre," Volume 3, page 2369, 1959.