MAKS KLOS

MAKS KLOS (ca. 1900-ca. 1976)

            He was an actor, born in Pultusk (Pułtusk), Poland.  Over the years 1919-1937, he lived in Germany, later in Belgium.  From his youth he acted in Yiddish theater in a number of countries.  In 1939 he emigrated to Argentina, later to Brazil.  He published theater memoirs in his book, Baym shayn fun rompe-likht (In the reflection of the footlights) (Buenos Aires, 1972), 302 pp.  He died in Rio de Janeiro.

Yoysef Horn

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 486.