MEYER BROYDE (MEIR BRAUDO)

MEYER BROYDE (MEIR BRAUDO) (April 5, 1892-April 2, 1986)

            He was born in Sosnitse (Sosnytsia), Ukraine.  He studied in a Talmud-Torah.  He lived in Poltava and Odessa, and traveled through cities and towns in Russia, acting and directing troupes and amateur dramatic groups.  He spent 1925-1930 at the Moscow theatrical studio of Fraykunst (Free art).  He acted as well in the Moscow Russian theater; for ten years, with short interruptions, he worked in the Odessa state theater, and after 1948 with the Lithuanian theater.  From 1956 he was living in Israel.  He wrote up his lengthy experiences as a wandering actor in his Kulisn un hinterkulisn, zikhroynes, bagegenishn, geshtaltn in yidishn teater in soviet rusland (Theatrical wings and behinds the scenes: Memoirs, experiences, images of Yiddish theater in Soviet Russia) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1974), 256 pp., with a supplement (Tel Aviv, 1982), 95 pp.  He died in Tel Aviv.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 117.