LEYB KANER (b. Tamuz 1891)
He was
born in Novoselits (Novoseltsa), Bessarabia. In 1910 he emigrated to Canada. He wrote humorous sketches and depictions of
local personalities in Keneder odler
(Canadian eagle) in Montreal (1910-1912).
Yankev Kirshenboym has written that Louis Kremer composed together with
Kaner the four-act play Mendl beylis oder
aliles dam (Mendel Beilis or a blood libel), but it was advertised on
posters as the work solely of Kremer.
Source: Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook
of the Yiddish theater), vol. 6 (Mexico City, 1969).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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