Photographers
James J. Kriegsmann Studio
New York, New York

Sitter
Mae Schoenfeld, March 9, 1906 - March 28, 1978

Date
unknown

Type
Portrait

Medium
Photograph

Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Testimony
" [Mae Schoenfeld] made her stage debut at the age of three, while on tour with her actor parents, Benjamin and Lena Schoenfeld. She appeared in Yiddish classics and contemporary plays, sometimes with her husband, Irving Jacobson, who played Sancho Panza in the original cast of the Broadway musical, "Man of La Mancha."

In 1959 [she] appeared with Molly Picon in "The Kosher Widow" at the Anderson Theater.

She and her husband owned and operated the National and Second Avenue Theatres in New York City. Her last appearance on stage was in "Enter Laughing" with Alan Arkin, during the play's national tour."

Source of Testimony
New York Times, "Mae Schoenfeld Jacobson, 72, Actress in the Yiddish Theatre," March 30, 1978.