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3 unusual facts about Moishe Finkel


Boris Thomashefsky

In 1891, with Mogulesko, Kessler, and Adler all engaged in starting the Union Theater, Moishe Finkel brought the still relatively unknown Thomashefsky back to New York to star at his National Theater, where Thomashefsky became such an enormous popular success in Moses Halevy Horowitz's operetta David ben Jesse as to force the Union Theater temporarily to abandon its highbrow programming and compete head on.

Maurice Finkel

Moishe Finkel (18??–1904), prominent figure in the early years of Yiddish theater

Maurice Herman Finkel

:Not to be confused with Moishe "Maurice" Finkel, a late 19th-century Yiddish theater performer.



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