31  January 2nd, 1947


  1. “minhag,” a Jewish ritual/custom↩︎

  2. Also called The Children of Yisroel↩︎

  3. The Land of Israel↩︎

  4. at the corner of Grand and Chrystie Sts↩︎

  5. 1904/1905↩︎

  6. See an advertisement for performances of this show on December 2nd-4th 1904↩︎

  7. See an advertisement for a matinee performance of this show on December 18th, 1904↩︎

  8. Or, he might mean here that he played it in a very natural way; Either way, his point is it wasn’t absurd slapstick.↩︎

  9. diminutive mentsh↩︎

  10. a pitiful, helpless person↩︎

  11. He also managed the Grand Theater with Adler and Kessler↩︎

  12. Here is his obituary published in the Forverts on March 5th, 1910, which details his tragic rise and fall.↩︎

  13. Worth noting that the obituary in the Forverts says he died at age 63, but exact ages are often tricky to pin down↩︎