[Cz-L] Meet Sam Silberbush, a native of Czernowitz

Here is the translated biography of Sam Silberbush, once of the Yiddish
theatre. Since this bio appeared in Volume 1, it only covers his history up
until the publishing year of 1931:

He was born on 15 September 1878 in Czernowitz, Bukovina.

His parents owned a mill in Gurahumora, where he was educated.

S. studied in a cheder and in a public school, as well as singing with a
cantor.

At the age of thirteen he travelled to Pressburg in order to join a yeshiva,
singing there with the cantor Kohnstat, and then went to Budapest to study
with the cantor Bachman, where he also received a musical education.

There he met the Yiddish actors Philip Weisenfreund, Eskreis, Brandes, Berl
Bernstein, Treytler and his daughter Malvina (who later became Lobel), with
whom he traveled as a choirboy and actor over all of Galicia and other
Austrian-Hungarian territories and throughout Romania.

Because of the difficult situation faced by the Yiddish Theatre, his playing
many times on the Yiddish stage was often interrupted, and he did
participate in circus-representations.

In 1906 he played the Yiddish vaudeville circuit with the Kaners and
Littmans in Karlsbad, and from there he was brought to America by Sam Agid
for his vaudeville house.

Then he played in the legitimate theatre with Jacob Frank in Baltimore, and
after that a few seasons in Chicago with Charles Nathanson and Elias
Rothstein, playing big roles and as a singing actor, having the opportunity
to play with the invited actors and with the most famous personalities of
the Yiddish stage.

In the last years, S. participated in English plays, among them in the "Gads
of Lighting"[?], with Harris Brem and Charles Pickford, and for three
seasons as "Levy" in the "Jazz Singer" (with George Jessel) and in "Toirn tu
di reit".

He also participated in some "talkies".

S. wrote and sung for the phonograph two hundred and eight Yiddish and
English songs, some of them ("The Old Father", "The Chazzan Getting Older",
"B'rith Mila") becoming very popular.

Note from Steve:

You can hear Sam sing in Yiddish as part of an album at the Florida Atlantic
University Archives.

The link is
http://faujsa.fau.edu/jsa/search.php?artisttext=&artist_select=&titletext=&title_select=&selectlabel=&cattext=&selectgenre=&selectlanguage=&select=Cat_Numa&fetch=25&pagenum=2

Hopefully the link will work for you. Then just scroll down to his name in
the left-hand column and click on the link.

Best,

Steve Lasky

Regards,
Steven Lasky
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
blog: http://museumoffamilyhistory.blogspot.com
steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com
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