Warsaw Courtyards

Avrom Teytlboym

1947

Muranow 19

This was not a very big courtyard, a longish but narrow one, like hundreds of others of this type in the thickly settled part of Jewish Warsaw. One side, the innermost one, was a two-story building. The other sides surrounding the court were one-story buildings. In the middle of the courtyard there was a small pump, from which all…

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Avrom Teytlboym

1889–1947

A restlessly busy actor with a strong literary bent, Avrom Teytlboym began his career with productions by Y. L. Peretz. An itinerant period followed in which Teytlboym, who was born in Warsaw, moved between London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Moscow, and Vilna, landing finally in New York, where he performed alongside Maurice Schwartz. Along the way, Teytlboym also directed, produced, and stage managed plays, and he published myriad articles and reviews in Yiddish periodicals, earning the sobriquet “the Literary Actor.” Toward the end of his life, he returned to the Warsaw of his childhood, producing his most lasting work.

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