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May 03, 1881 Chișinău, Moldova Died on 01 Jan 1938 (aged 56)
Jewish actor
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About Boris Rosenthal
- Boris Rosenthal (1881–1938) was a character actor and operetta lyricist in the Yiddish theater.
- Born in Kishinev, Bessarabia to a flour merchant.
- Rosenthal was sent to work very early at a manufacturing factory, when the family moved to Lódz he began to frequent the German theater productions.
- In 1904, he played a small role in an Ida Kaminska play and then decided to become an actor.
- He worked in Dovid-Moyshe Sabsay's troupe, debuting in Abraham Goldfaden's Baba Yakhne, moving then to Fishzon's troupe.His parents left for the United States in 1906 and he followed two years later.
- The Actors' Union refused him work so he went to London for two seasons.
- In 1910 he returned to Lódz and played there successfully for three years.
- He then emigrated to America, where he played from 1913-1917 in Philadelphia, and then a year in New York's Yidishe kunst teater (Jewish art theater) and then in Boris Thomashevsky's National Theater and then Kessler's Second Avenue Theater and the Public Theater.
- He played lesser roles as he became ill and partially paralyzed.
- He died in New York.He acted in one film, Gelebt un gelakht (Live and Laugh).
