Harry Thomashefsky

1895 - 1993  (97 years)

• Name	Harry Thomashefsky  [1]
  Birth	21 Mar 1895	New York, NY, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	1993
  Person ID	I3270	Rothschild_Bloom
  Last Modified	22 May 2014

  
  

  Father	Boris Thomashefsky,   b. 12 May 1868, Kiev, Russia d. 9 Jul 1939, Beth Israel Hospital, New York (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman,   b. 1873, Tarasche, Kiev, Ukraine d. 6 Jul 1962 (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	1891
  Family ID	F2334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  [Harry] was born on 21 March 1895 in New York, America. His parents were Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky. He completed public school and a five-class high school. He learned art painting at Columbia University, and Yiddish studies with a tutor. As a child he acted in his father's play "Dos pintele yid" and in Goldfaden's "Di kishufmakherin", ("Heyse bobkelen"). In 1913 Sh. was a manager of his father's visit to Europe, and in 1917 participated together with his father and Kessler in Lillian's "Kinder kumt aheym", in which he alone wrote a role for himself. Later, as an assistant director for his father, he traveled with him to Argentina and Brazil, where he had performed as a "fat comic", acting afterwards and managed his father in Toronto  as he also did during his tour across America with the play "Shteyger-protses" and in the Metropolitan Opera in Philadelphia. In 1929-30 he acted in Gabel's Public Theatre. In 1931-32 he was manager in his father's Lyric Theatre, and in 1932 in his father's Gaiety Theatre. On 7 February 1920 there was staged T.'s play "Parlor, Floor and Basement, a comedy in 3 acts, music by Milton and Harry Thomashefsky". He also wrote an English sketch. On 10 February 1931 in New York's Selvin? Theatre there was staged his English verse from his father's operetta, "Di khznte", also named "Di singing rabey (The Singing Rabbi)". [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S77] Thomashefsky, 71, Yiddish Actor, Dies. [S153] Zalmen Zylbercwajg.