Abba Kompaneyets (Абе or Аба Гирш-Лейбович Компанеец, 1870—1946[1]) was a Yiddish theatre troupe manager and actor in Russia, Latvia and Poland.[2][3]
His wife was the actress Leah (Леи Компанеец born Гершанович), his daughter the actress Betty Kompaneyets-Rabinovitsch (Бетти Компанеец-Рабинович) (1900—?) who emigrated with her husband Leon to Mexico where their daughters Fanya Rabel became a well-known painter and Melakha Rabel a writer.[4]
References
edit- ^ Gilles Rozier Moyshe Broderzon: un écrivain yiddish d'avant-garde 1999 - Page 271 "KOMPANEYETS, Abe (1870—1946) "
- ^ Jeffrey Veidlinger Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire - Page 208 - 2009 "... be acquired from Warsaw brokers like Kompaneyets's Warsaw Yiddish Theater (Varshaver idisher teatr) publishing house or could be read in serials like Di yidishe bihne (The Jewish Stage). "
- ^ Anna Tzelniker Three for the price of one - 1991 - Page 21 "theatres— Kaminska's Theatre and Kompaneyet's Theatre. In Kompaneyet's Theatre they were contemplating producing a play by the name of Tzu Shpet (too late): or Di Farfirte, the story of a girl's ruination. (In those days, all plays had two ...")
- ^ Zalmen Zylbercweig Lives in the Yiddish Theatre 1931-1969 - Betty Kompaneyets-Rabinovitsh