Margeretta Schwartz was one of the first distinguished female performers in
Yiddish theater
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. She and her sister
Annetta shared ''
prima donna'' duties in
Abraham Goldfaden's troupe in
Romania
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beginning in 1877.
Jacob Adler
Jacob Pavlovich Adler (Yiddish: יעקבֿ פּאַװלאָװיטש אַדלער; born Yankev P. Adler; February 12, 1855 – April 1, 1926)IMDB biography was a Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and ...
described the sisters as "absolutely respectable" women with classical training as singers. He also writes that when they performed in
Odessa
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,
Ukraine
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in the late 1870s, they had
Paris
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dresses of a quality that had never been seen in that city.
References
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Adler, Jacob, ''A Life on the Stage: A Memoir'', translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, , 69, 113.
Yiddish theatre performers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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