Zalmen Zylbercweig

Zalmen Zylbercweig (Yiddish: זלמן זילבערצווייג ; Ozorkow, 1894-Los Angeles 1972) was a historian of Yiddish theater. He is best known as the author of the six volume Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre,[1] the largest reference work on the history of Yiddish theatre.[2][3][4]

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  1. ↑ Joel Berkowitz Yiddish theatre: new approaches 2003 Page 202 "Zalmen Zylbercweig (1894-1972), for example, whose Leksikon fun yidishn teater (Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre) is an ..."
  2. ↑ Barbara Henry, Joel Berkowitz Inventing the Modern Yiddish Stage 2012 - Page 16 "The controversy revolved around an entry in Zalmen Zylbercweig's (1894–1972) six volume Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre, by far the largest reference work on the history of the Yiddish stage. The controversy pitted Zylbercweig first ..."
  3. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum 2007 - Volume 21 - Page 697 "[Moshe Mishkinsky] ZYLBERCWEIG, ZALMAN (1894-1972), historian of Yiddish theater. Born in Ozorkow, near Lodz, Poland, to a family descended from the biblical exegete *Malbim, his involvement in the Yiddish theater in Lodz began in "
  4. ↑ Jacob Rader Marcus United States Jewry, 1776-1985 1990 - Volumes 1 à 2 - Page 409 "These are the names that stud the indices in George C. D. Odell's massive Annals of the New York Stage and fill the pages of Zalman Zylbercwaig's multivolume Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre. The actors were very important; the theatre-loving ..."

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