BORN ON THIS DAY, FEBRUARY 16: JEANETTE RINGLER
from my translation of her "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" biography,
Volume 6
Born on 16 February 1888 in Czernowitz, Bukovina. Her father was a Gemara
teacher and a religious slaughterer. She studied in a cheder and in a public
school. From her childhood, she was attracted to the theatre. Not being able
to get in to the theatre, she used to stand outside the theatre where
Yiddish troupes used to play.
She met the actor Shmuel Bendel, married him, and after three years, entered
the chorus of Zelig Schorr in Stanislawow where she stayed for one season.
Then she played in vaudeville one season with Pepi Litmann.
Then moving to Romania, she played one season with the Bleichmans, then in
Lemberg with Podzamcze, again with him in Vienna and in Bad-Karlsbad, where
the owner of the Yiddish variety Theatre in America, Sam Agid, saw her, took
her in and brought her to America where she acted for five years, then in
legitimate Yiddish theatre for one season with Sidney Hart in Cleveland,
again for three years in Yiddish vaudeville, then three years in legitimate
Yiddish theatre at New York's Lyric Theatre, in Boston some seasons with
Glickman in Chicago, in the Lenox and Lyric theatres of New York, three more
years with Julius Nathanson in Boston, some seasons with Glickman in
Chicago, then in other Yiddish groups, where she played with success various
character roles.
In her last years, R. was married with the prompter Meyer Braff.
She was sick for a long period and had to undergo several surgeries. She
passed away on 5 May 1940 and came to her eternal rest in the cemetery of
the Yiddish Actors Alliance (at Mt. Hebron Cemetery -- ed.) in New York.
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/R/ringler-jeanette.htm
Regards,
Steve Lasky
steve_at_museumoffamilyhistory.com
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