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Porozow
Porazava ( be, Поразава, russian: По́розово, pl, Porozów, yi, פּאָרוזעווע ''Porozeve'', lt, Porozovas) is a town in the Svislach District of Grodno Region, Belarus near the town of Svislach.Vitaut Kipel, Zora Kipel ''Byelorussian statehood: reader and bibliography'' 1988 - Page 320 "He was born in the town of Porazava, near the city of Vatikavysk on December 16. 1888. His parents were poor urbanites who owned some land on which they worked. Hadleuski went to local schools in Porazava and in the town of Svislac." The town had a thriving Jewish community and synagagogue prior to World War II. Among those born in the town was the "mother of Yiddish theatre" Ester Rachel Kamińska. During World War II, Porazava was occupied by Nazi Germany from June 1941 until 15 July 1944 and administered as a part of Bezirk Bialystok Bialystok District (German: ''Bezirk Bialystok'') was an administrative unit of Nazi Germany created during the World War II invasion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ester Rachel Kamińska
Ester Rachel Kamińska ( yi, ); née Ester-Rokhl Halpern ( Porozów, 10 March 1870 – Warsaw, 25 December 1925) was a Polish Jewish actress, known as the mother of Yiddish theatre. She won fame as the star of a series of Yiddish theater companies managed by her husband, Avrom Yitshok Kamiński (Abraham Isaac Kamiński), touring in the cities and small towns of the Russian Empire from approximately 1893 to 1905. In Warsaw, in 1907 they together founded the Literary Troupe (Literarishe trupe), the first Yiddish theater company to dedicate itself to a 'literary' or 'artistic' repertoire.Steinlauf, Michael C. (17 August 2010)"Kaminski family" ''YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe''. Retrieved 2016-05-27. She was the mother of Ida Kamińska (1899–1980), the well known stage and film actress, who cofounded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater in the 1920s, and, in 1946, following the Second World War, played in reestablished Yiddish theaters in Poland. Today, the Jewish Theatre, War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
