Bernard Sauer
Bernard Sauer (1924 — February 13, 1991) was an American stage actor, most prominently starring in Yiddish theater during the 1960s and 70s. Sauer was born into a family of six in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied acting there before making his theatrical debut in the 1945 play, ''Yoshke, the Musician'' directed by Joseph Buloff. By the mid-1960s, Sauer had begun appearing on Broadway theatre, Broadway where he co-starred with Ben Bonus in the 1966 play ''Let's Sing Yiddish''. He went on to appear in ''Sing Israel Sing'' (1967) and ''Light, Lively and Yiddish'' (1970). In 1971, he toured with a Yiddish repertory company performing at the Anderson Theater in Manhattan. Sauer went into semi-retirement during the 1980s, although he worked behind the scenes on the 1985 musical ''"A Match Made in Heaven"''. He served as a board member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance as well as the president of the Hebrew Actors' Union from 1986 until his death. He died in New York from a heart a ...
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Yiddish Theater
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community. The range of Yiddish theatre is broad: operetta, musical comedy, and satiric or nostalgic revues; melodrama; naturalist drama; expressionist and modernist plays. At its height, its geographical scope was comparably broad: from the late 19th century until just before World War II, professional Yiddish theatre could be found throughout the heavily Jewish areas of Eastern and East Central Europe, but also in Berlin, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and New York City. Yiddish theatre's roots include the often satiric plays traditionally performed during religious holiday of Purim (known as Purimshpils); other masquerades such as the Dance of Death; the singing of cantors in the synagogues; Jewish secular song and dramatic improvisation; exposure to the theatre traditions of various European countries, and the Jewish literary culture t ...
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