Wednesday 26 November 2014

KHEVL (CHEWEL) BUZMAN

KHEVL (CHEWEL) BUZMAN (December 24, 1897-April 26, 1971)
     Born in Vilna, he attended an “improved” religious elementary school and a school attached to the teachers’ institute in Vilna.  At the time of WWI, he was living in Germany.  He acted with the Vilna Troupe, among other groups.  From 1938 he was living in Argentina, and from 1950 in Poland.  He was the author of a booklet entitled Hantbukh far aktyorn (Handbook for actors) (Warsaw, 1937), 64 pp.  He died in Warsaw.



Sources: Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidish teater (Handbook of the Yiddish theater), vol. 1, pp. 146-47; Dr. R. Feldshuh, Yidisher gezelshaftlekher leksikon (Jewish communal handbook), vol. 1 (Warsaw, 1939), pp. 564-65.


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