ADOLFO
(AVROM) MIDE (b. October 17, 1894)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland. He received a devout Jewish education. In his youth he became acquainted with an
amateur theatrical troupe, and traveled with them throughout the Polish
provinces and towns. In 1912 he acted in
a professional capacity in various Yiddish theater troupes. During WWI he was a prisoner of war in a camp
in Wieselburg, Austria, where he assembled a troupe and performed theater. In 1922 he made his way to Argentina,
settling in Buenos Aires where he founded the first Yiddish actors’ association
in Argentina. He later worked as
director of various theaters. He
published theatrical memoirs in Der
shpigl (The mirror) in Buenos Aires and in other periodicals in South
America. In book form he published: Epizodn fun yidishn teater (Episodes
from Yiddish theater), vol. 1 (Buenos Aires, 1952), 110 pp. Through 1957 this volume went through four
printings. He was last living in Buenos
Aires.
Sources:
Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook of the Yiddish
theater), vol. 2 (New York, 1934); Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe
gedrukte vort in argentina (The published Yiddish word in Argentina), vol.
1 (Buenos Aires, 1941), pp. 47, 201; Der
shpigl (Buenos Aires) (May-June 1957), p. 10; oral information from Zalmen
Zilbertsvayg.
Zaynvl Diamant
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