KHAYIM
POLONSKI (b. July 20, 1892)
He was born in Uman, Kiev district,
Ukraine. For a time he was living in
Lodz, Poland, working in a manufacturing business. In 1915 he joined the Yiddish theater and
debuted in Lublin. In 1918, he performed
at the Skala Theater in Lodz, and traveled through Lithuania, Latvia, and
Austria. He later returned to Lodz and
took part in circuits through the provinces.
He dramatized for the stage Émile Zola’s novel Nana with the title Der
gekoyfter man (The bought husband) and translated several one-act plays
into Polish.
Source:
Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook of the Yiddish
theater), vol. 3 (New York, 1959), pp. 1634-35.
Yankev Kahan
No comments:
Post a Comment