SAMUEL FISHER

SAMUEL FISHER (b. March 17, 1887)

            He was an actor, born in Riga.  He performed with a variety of Yiddish theatrical troupes in New York, whence he had come with his parents in 1894.  In addition to 160 sketches, he wrote twenty-four three-act and four complete plays: Siem hatoyre (The completion of the [reading of the] Torah), Loy tartsekh (Thou shall not kill), Tserisene keytn (Broken chains), and Trayhayt fun a froy (Loyalty of a woman).  They were, however, never published.

Source: Z. Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook of the Yiddish theater), vol. 6.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 445-46.