Thomashefsky, Boris

Thomashefsky, Boris
(1868-1939)
   Boris Thomashefsky was born in Kiev, Russia, immigrated to the United States in 1881, and found work in a shirt factory. He began acting in Yiddish theatre in a revival of Avrom Goldfadn's The Witch on the Lower East Side of New York. He tried his hand as a producer, playwright, and theatre owner, but lacked the ambition to provide the sort of challenging dramas his colleague Jacob Adler regularly offered.
   Known for his good looks and melodic voice, Thomashefsky starred in numerous Yiddish operettas, including Moshe Zeifert's The Little Spark of Jewishness (1909). The romanticized roles he played onstage, enhanced by his frequently publicized offstage love life, elevated him to stardom. His wife, Bessie Baumfield-Kaufman (1873-1962), often costarred with him in Yiddish versions of literary classics such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hamlet, Faust, Hedda Gabler, and Parsifal. Thomashefsky occasionally performed on Broadway, notably in The Singing Rabbi (1931). He also acted in Yiddish-language motion pictures.

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