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 Yidishn Teater, many of which have been translated. For any Leksikon entries which exist but have not yet been translated, I provide their entry’s volume and page number instead.
A
B
C
E
F
G
H
I
- Henry Irving
J
K
L
M
- Richard Mansfield
- Rudolph Marks
- David Medoff
- Michail Efimovich Medvedev (Meïr Yefimovich Bernshtein)
- Hyman Meisel
- Annie Meltzer
- David Meyerowitz
- Lazar Mitnick
- Amalia (“Molly”) Mogulesko
- Sigmund (“Zelig”) Mogulesko
N
- Charles Nathanson
P
R
S
- Ludwig Satz
- Abba Schoengold (“Yaffa Zahav”, Beautiful Gold)
- Wikipedia
- Leksikon: Volume 4, page 2944
- Rudolph Schildkraut
- Wikipedia
- Leksikon: Volume 4, page 2817
- Anshel Schorr
- Maurice Schwartz
- Nathan Schulman
- William Schwartz
- Leksikon: Volume 6, page 4990
- Obituary
- William Segal
- Rae Shneyer
- Abraham Shomer
- Nahum Meïr Schaikewitz, aka Shomer
- Adolph Shrage
- Wolf Shumsky
- Moishe Simonoff
- Solomon Smulewitz, aka Solomon Small
- Max Staller
- He was the manager of Sam’s acting troupe in Philadelphia, the “Star Specialty Club,” in the early 1890s.
- He was a noted anarchist and physician, and the first president of Mt. Sinai Hospital in South Philadelphia (now closed).
- Find a Grave
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Nachum Stutchkoff
T
V
- Yosef Vachtel
W
Y
Z
- Moishe Zilberman
- Leon Zolotkoff
- Leksikon
- Congress for Jewish Culture
- He was primarily a writer and editor, and he was also a leading Zionist voice.
- Regina Zuckerberg
- Wikipedia
- Leksikon: Volume 5, page 3853