YITSKHOK KAPLAN (1874-February 18, 1929)
An
artist and playwright, he was born in Pereyaslav, Ukraine. He began with children’s roles for Avrom
Goldfaden and later became a professional actor with various troupes in Europe
and the United States. He wrote a series
of plays: Tsurik aheym (Back home), Keyn tsien (To Zion), Dos farmer-lebn (The farmer’s life), Der fisher (The fisherman), Der ganef (The thief), Der emes (The truth), Der tayvl-kush (Kiss of the devil), and Der gefunener zun (The discovered son). His play Itsikl
vil khasene hoben (Itsikl wants to get married), an operetta in five acts,
was published anonymously (Warsaw: Sh. Goldfarb, 1925), 40 pp. He also translated many plays, among them Di shuld fun di umshuldike (The guilt of
the innocent [original: Bex viny vinovatye
(Guilty without fault)]) by Alexander
Ostrovsky. A great number of his plays
were staged. He died in New York.
Source: Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook
of the Yiddish theater), vol. 6 (Mexico City, 1969).
Berl Cohen
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