MAKS AVRAMOVITSH (March 20, 1856-July 19, 1896)
Born in Huşi,
Romania. Adopted name of Maks
Abramovitsh. Lyricist and composer for
the Yiddish theater. He was living in
the United States from 1885. He wrote the
music for dozens of Yiddish dramas, songs, and couplets; author of the booklet,
Mayn teater-magazin, eyne ertseylung iber shmendriks glik und unglik, zayne
gantse lebns-biografye, tsuzamenzetst oys 237 nemen fun theater shtike, zayt
yidishes theater ekzistirt, 1877-1895 (My theater magazine, a story of
Shmendrik’s joy and unhappiness, his entire life’s biography, together with 237
titles of Yiddish theater pieces, the Yiddish theater’s existence, 1877-1895).
Sources:
Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater leksikon, vol. 1; Sh. Perlmuter, Yidishe
dramaturgn un teater-kompozitorn (Yiddish playwrights and theatrical
composers) (New York, 1952).
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