Tuesday, 12 January 2016

PEYSEKH BURSHTEYN

PEYSEKH BURSHTEYN (April 15, 1896-April 11, 1986)
            He was an artist, born in Warsaw.  At age six he moved with his parents to Berdyansk, Russia, where he studied in religious elementary school and graduated from a Russian public school.  His entire life, he acted on the Yiddish stage in various countries.  In 1923 he emigrated to the United States.  In book form: Geshpilt a lebn (Played a life) (Tel Aviv, 1980), 358 pp.  He died in New York.


Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 77.

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