Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame on 2nd Avenue
(in front of the site of the old Second Avenue Deli)
First, Fyvush Finkel, who is still performing, is the only one of a few who has a “solo” star. His is also one of the most readable. Next is the way the rest of them are: two names sharing a star. Here’s Jennie Goldstein and Ida Kaminska (she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar). Then Lillian Lux and Pesack Burstein (a wife and husband team, respectively). Mike Burstyn, their son, who shares a star with Jack Rechtzeit, has his one website and is very active. Abraham Goldfaden has two stars, one for being the founder of the Yiddish Theater in 1876, and Boris Thomashevsky and Bessie Thomashevsky, the first family of Yiddish Theater in America.
Other stars honor these Yiddish theater greats: Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison; Abraham Goldfaden and Michal Michalesko, Miriam Kressyn and Seymour Rexite; “Alt Raymond” and Barry Sisters; Max Bozyk and Rose Bozyk: Ed Fuchs and Rebecca Richman; Sholum Secunda) and Peretz Sandler: Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich (Jacob was Molly’s husband); Leon Liebgold and Lilly Lilyana; Mary Soreanu and Lucy Levine; Irving Jacobson and an “unknown” Jacobson: Ben Bonas and Mina Bern (husband and wife); Ludwig Satz and Moishe Oysher: David Kessler and Zvi Scooler; Herman Yablokoff and Bella Meisel: Jacob P. Adler and Sadie Adler; Alexander Olshanetsky and Abe Ellstein: Mischa Gehrman and Lucy Gehrman: Joseph Rumshinsky and Arnold Perlmutter: Jacob Jacobs and Betty Jacobs: Maurice Schwartz and Menashe Skulnik; Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler (wife and husband); The final star on the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame is another single-person-on-a-star, Daniel Libeskind, the architect, with the interesting suffix “Friend of Folksbiene,” the National Yiddish Theater.
Other stars honor these Yiddish theater greats: Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison; Abraham Goldfaden and Michal Michalesko, Miriam Kressyn and Seymour Rexite; “Alt Raymond” and Barry Sisters; Max Bozyk and Rose Bozyk: Ed Fuchs and Rebecca Richman; Sholum Secunda) and Peretz Sandler: Molly Picon and Jacob Kalich (Jacob was Molly’s husband); Leon Liebgold and Lilly Lilyana; Mary Soreanu and Lucy Levine; Irving Jacobson and an “unknown” Jacobson: Ben Bonas and Mina Bern (husband and wife); Ludwig Satz and Moishe Oysher: David Kessler and Zvi Scooler; Herman Yablokoff and Bella Meisel: Jacob P. Adler and Sadie Adler; Alexander Olshanetsky and Abe Ellstein: Mischa Gehrman and Lucy Gehrman: Joseph Rumshinsky and Arnold Perlmutter: Jacob Jacobs and Betty Jacobs: Maurice Schwartz and Menashe Skulnik; Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler (wife and husband); The final star on the Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame is another single-person-on-a-star, Daniel Libeskind, the architect, with the interesting suffix “Friend of Folksbiene,” the National Yiddish Theater.