Y. BIDERMAN

Y. BIDERMAN

            In the first half of the nineteenth century, he wrote theatrical works in “Yiddish dialect” which were staged with considerable success.  His name is also missing from Z. Zilbertsvayg’s Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook of the Yiddish theater).

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, preface to Gramatik fun der yidisher shprakh (Grammar of the Yiddish language) (Vilna, 1920).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 79.