Appendix C: Glossary of people

This appendix contains links to more information about people Sam meets and/or describes in his memoirs. People are listed below in alphabetical order. Leksikon refers to the entries in the encyclopedia Leksikon fun Yiddishn Teater, many of which have been translated. For any Leksikon entries which have not yet been translated, I provide their entry’s volume and page number instead.

Performers in the Yiddish theater

Others in the Yiddish theater

Authors, playwrights, lyricists, composers, managers, and more

Other people

  1. Interestingly, he does not appear to be featured in any volume of the Leksikon.↩︎

  2. Also a novelist more generally↩︎

  3. Though his career was predominantly in the American theater, in his teens he was an “errand-boy” for Yiddish actors in Boston.↩︎

  4. He was the manager of Sam’s acting troupe in Philadelphia, the “Star Specialty Club,” in the late 1880s-early 1890s.↩︎