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Abba Schoengold (also Shongold, Sheingold, or Shoengold) was a Romania
Romania

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n Jew
Jew

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ish actor in the early years of Yiddish theater, the first person to score a serious reputation a dramatic actor in Yiddish.

Biography
A singer in the synagogue
Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
 choir of the leading synagogue in Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
, Schoengold had also performed in a quartet with Sigmund Mogulesko
Sigmund Mogulesko

Sigmund Mogulesko — Yiddish: ??????????, ?????, first name also sometimes given as Zigmund, Siegmund, Zelig, or Selig, last name sometimes spelled Mogulescu — was a singer, actor, and composer in the Yiddish theater, originally from Kalarash, Bessarabia ....
, playing at weddings and parties. He failed an audition in 1877 for Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden

Abraham Goldfaden ; was an Ukraine-born Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays....
's nascent Yiddish theater company (which Mogulesko joined).






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Abba Schoengold (also Shongold, Sheingold, or Shoengold) was a Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish actor in the early years of Yiddish theater, the first person to score a serious reputation a dramatic actor in Yiddish.

Biography


A singer in the synagogue
Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
 choir of the leading synagogue in Bucharest
Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the D?mbovita River....
, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
, Schoengold had also performed in a quartet with Sigmund Mogulesko
Sigmund Mogulesko

Sigmund Mogulesko — Yiddish: ??????????, ?????, first name also sometimes given as Zigmund, Siegmund, Zelig, or Selig, last name sometimes spelled Mogulescu — was a singer, actor, and composer in the Yiddish theater, originally from Kalarash, Bessarabia ....
, playing at weddings and parties. He failed an audition in 1877 for Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden

Abraham Goldfaden ; was an Ukraine-born Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays....
's nascent Yiddish theater company (which Mogulesko joined). Within a year, he had joined the troupe of playwright Moses Halevy-Hurvitz, which toured through rural Romania and eventually to Chisinau
Chisinau

Chisinau , is the capital city and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial center and is located in the center of the country, on the river B?c River....
, where his performance supposedly inspired David Kessler
David Kessler (actor)

David Kessler was a prominent actor in the first great era of Yiddish theater. As a star Yiddish dramatic performer in New York City, he was the first leading man in Yiddish theater to dispense with incidental music....
's interest in theater. He then travelled on his own to Odessa
Odessa

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, Ukraine
Ukraine

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.

In 1882, at the Mariinsky Theater in Odessa, he scored a triumph in the first Yiddish-language production of Karl Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow

Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow was a Germany writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century....
's Uriel Acosta. Jacob Adler
Jacob Adler

Jacob Adler may refer to:* Jacob Pavlovich Adler , Russo/Ukrainian-American actor; star of New York Yiddish theater; progenitor of show-business family...
 writes that at this time he was "the god of the Yiddish public, the god, indeed, of all who saw him on stage... the handsomest man in the world. Tall. Blue eyes. Golden hair. An Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
." [Adler, 1999, 221] Adler also writes that he had "a mania for adding to his costume... a plume, a feather, a cape, a scarf, ... medals". [Adler, 1999, 269]

With his wife Clara, he followed much of the Yiddish theater community to London
London

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 in the mid-1880s and thence to New York City
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. Their son Joseph married Adler's daughter Frances in New York in 1911; both went on to be leading lights of the Yiddish stage.