biography
pronunciation:
[shvaw(r)ts]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1960)
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| biography:
| Stage actor, born in Sedikor, Russia. An intense and impressive figure in the Yiddish theatre, he went to the USA in 1901. He founded and for many years headed the Yiddish Art Theatre in New York. |
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