1/2 | Birthday of Zypora Spaisman
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 2 Birthday of Zypora Spaisman, Mainstay of the Yiddish Theater Born Zypora Tanenbaum on January 2, 1916 in Lublin, she acted on the stage in Polish and Yiddish from the time she was 10. She trained as a midwife and, after the Nazi invasion, fled eastward and from there to a labor camp in the Urals. Spaisman delivered more than 1,000 babies while in the camp and on weekends would organize Yiddish theatrical performances in the barracks. Spaisman came to the United States in 1954 and joined with the Folksbiene then under the leadership of Morris Adler, who gave...
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