Wednesday, 30 November 2016

FAYVL YOSEFIS

FAYVL YOSEFIS (b. 1893)
            He came from Galicia.  After WWI he settled in Warsaw.  He was an agent, a businessman, and an amateur artist.  He wrote sketches, monologues, poems, and scenes which were performed in Yiddish variety theaters, primarily in “Sambatyon” in Warsaw.  A number of them were later published in book form under the title Teater-gan-eden (Theatrical paradise) (Warsaw: Kleyn-kunst, 1920), 57 pp., second enlarged edition (Warsaw, 1930), 90 pp.  In 1938 he left Poland.  Further biographical details remain unknown.

Source: Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (April 11, 1930).
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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