NEKHEMYE SHMAIN (SHMAYIN) (1906-1943)
He was a
playwright and actor, born in Kamenaya (Kamiana), near Belaya Tserkov (Bila
Tserkva), Ukraine. He performed in the
Kiev Yiddish children’s theater, and he later also directed Yiddish theater
performances there. He died during WWII at
the front in a battle near Lozansk (Lozanskoye), Kharkov district, Ukraine. His published plays include: Eynakters far der bine (One-act plays
for the stage) (Minsk: State Publ., 1935), 40 pp.; Der dnyeper dertseylt, tripolyer tragedye (The Dnieper [River]
recounts, a triple tragedy), “a play in three acts and nine scenes”
(Kiev-Kharkov: Ukrainian state publishers for national minorities, 1937), 24
pp.; A gast (A guest), “a play in one
act” (Kiev-Kharkov: USSR state publishers for national minorities, 1937), 24
pp.; Der zeyde un di eyniklekh (The
grandfather and the grandchildren) (Kiev: USSR state publishers for national minorities, 1937), 24
pp.; Bam ofenem forhang (By the open
curtain), three one-act plays (Kiev: USSR state publishers for national minorities, 1939), 68
pp.; Kantonistn, tragedye in dray aktn
(Recruits, a tragedy in three acts), with Fayvl Sito (Kiev: State publishers
for national minorities of the USSR, 1940), 95 pp. He also dramatized Mendele’s Der priziv (The conscript) (Kharkov,
1927), 62 pp.
Sources: Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Handbook
of the Yiddish theater), vol. 5 (Mexico City, 1966); Chone Shmeruk,
comp., Pirsumim yehudiim
babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union,
1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1962), see index.
Berl Cohen
[Additional information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in
ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet
Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish
Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 387.]
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