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Grinberg, Yosef
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Museum of Family History
– June 20, 1996),Blumenthal, Ralph (June 22, 19960.

. ''New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved 2017-06-23 born Yoysef Grinberg,Robboy, Ron (March 3, 2000). "Victor Packer". ''Mendele'' moderated mailing list for Yiddish language and literature. Vol. 09.068. Available as downloadable text file in th
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Retrieved 2017-06-23. Robboy, a scholar of Yiddish theater music, recounts that "Yoysef Grinberg", who acted with the "Undzer Teater" experimental theater group in New York in 1925, "later changed his name to Joseph Green for his work as director of several classic Yiddish films", including ''A brivele der mamen'' and ''Yidl mitn fidl''. a.k.a. Josef Grünberg, Joseph Greenberg and Joseph Greene, a

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who emigrated to the

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in 1924, was an actor in

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and one of the few directors of

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. He made four Yiddish films that he shot on location in Poland, beginning in 1935: ''

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'' (Yiddle with his Fiddle; 1935), '' Der Purimspiler'' (The Jester; 1937), '' Mamele'' (Little Mother; 1938), and ''A brivele der mamen'' (A Little Letter to Mother; 1939).''A Letter to Mother'' / A Brivele der Maman
. The National Center for Jewish Film. jewishfilm.org. Retrieved 2017-06-23. He also wrote the screenplays for the films, except for ''Mamele''. Born in

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(Poland), then in

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, part of the

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, he attended a traditional Jewish

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, or elementary school, and then a state gymnasium (high school). In 1915, during the

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, he trained at the drama school of German theater director

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, who was then heading the Deutsches Theater in Lodz, and in 1916 he made his debut as an actor with the Lodz-based amateur troupe of

Zalmen Zylbercweig Zalmen Zylbercweig (Yiddish: זלמן זילבערצווייג ; Ozorkow, 1894-Los Angeles 1972) was a historian of Yiddish theater. He is best known as the author of the six-volume '' Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' (Lexicon or Encyclopedia of the ...

. Green had small roles in ''

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'', in 1927, and ''A Daughter of her People'', in 1932. Also in 1932 he provided the Yiddish-language dubbing for the silent Italian film ''Joseph in the Land of Egypt''. He died of

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at the age of 96 in

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. Green was interviewed in the 1985 British documentary on Yiddish Films, ''Almonds and Raisins''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Joseph American male film actors Film directors from New York (state) Yiddish-language film directors Yiddish theatre performers American people of Polish-Jewish descent Male actors from Łódź 1900 births 1996 deaths 20th-century American male actors Polish emigrants to the United States

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