Polish Cabaret Performers - Yosef Tunkel, Julian Tuwim, Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski, Pesach Burstein, Shloyme Prizament, Emanuel Schlechter (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Yosef Tunkel, Julian Tuwim, Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski, Pesach Burstein, Shloyme Prizament, Emanuel Schlechter, Marian Hemar, Coupletist, Moishe Broderzon, David Beigelman, Iso Szajewicz, Leo Fuchs, Fanny Gordon, Zygmunt Bia ostocki, Henech Kon, Mina Bern, Adolf Dymsza, Kazimierz Krukowski, Artur Gold, Shimon Dzigan, Henryk Gold, Tadeusz Olsza, Ben-Zion Witler, Lola Folman, Szymon Kataszek, Hanna Ordonowna, Menashe Oppenheim, Ola Lilith, Zina Goldstein, Diana Blumenfeld, Konrad Tom, Stefan Witas, Adam Aston, Ruzha Fuchs, Tadeusz Faliszewski, Ivo Wesby, Stanis awa Nowicka, Yakov Fuchs, Harry Waldau. Excerpt: Yosef Tunkel (1881-August 9, 1949) was a Jewish-Belarusian-American writer of poetry and humorous prose in Yiddish commonly known by the pen name Der Tunkeler or 'The dark one' in Yiddish. Born into the family of a poor teacher in Babruysk (in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire), Tunkel was a sickly child whose drawing ability prompted charitable members of the community to send him to art school in Vilno. He finished his studies in 1899 and, too short sighted to be a painter, turned to writing. His poetry was first published in Der yud (Warsaw) in 1901 and from then on his poems, satires, drama and children's stories appeared in Yiddish publications throughout Europe and North America. Between 1906 and 1910 he travelled to the United States where he started the humorous journal Der kibitser (continued for two decades under the title Der Groyser Kundes). Moving to Warsaw in 1911 he wrote for Der moment, editing its humour pages, Der krumer spiegel, or The Crooked Mirror. He spent World War I in Ukraine, mainly in Kiev and Odessa. In the early twenties, he adapted several works of German poet Wilhelm Busch. When the Warsaw cabaret Azazel opened in 1925, Der Tunkeler's writings were part of the repertoir...