Israel Grodner

By Jesse Russell

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Israel (Yisrol) Grodner (ca. 1848 - 1887) was one of the founding performers in Yiddish theater. A Lithuanian Jew who moved at the age of 16 to Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire, the Broder singer and actor was in Iaşi, Romania in 1876 when Abraham Goldfaden recruited him as the first actor for what became the first professional Yiddish theater troupe. Jacob Adler remarks that as the only Lithuanian Jew in the early years of Yiddish theater, he deliberately spoke a different dialect of Yiddish on stage so that it would blend better with the other actors. (The Yiddish of Lithuania differed from that of Ukraine and Romania.)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 5510811072
• ISBN13: 9785510811070
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"