Der Americaner Chatan, Camediye in 1 Act – Yiddish Free Translation by the Well-Known Yiddisher Actor Zalman ...

Der Americaner Chatan, Camediye in 1 Act – Yiddish Free Translation by the Well-Known Yiddisher Actor Zalman Zilberzweig – Warsaw, [the 1930's?] – an Unknown Jewish Comedy – Extremely Rare
The American Groom – a comedy in one act by A. Lavish.
Yiddish free translation of the well-known Yiddisher translator and actor Zalman Zilberzweig.
The comedy is unknown and is not referred to anywhere. The booklet itself does not appear in libraries and until recently was bibliographically unknown. Recently, a copy was given to the national Library.
Zalman Zilberzweig was a playwright, theater actor, historian of the Yiddisher Theater and translator into Yiddish.
Zilberzweig was born in 1894, studied at a Cheider and for a short time at the yeshiva of Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov Reines in Lida. He worked as a clerk in a store.
From a young age he liked theater. At first he performed with amateur theater bands in Yiddish and Hebrew and then joined professional bands. During the years 1915-1918, he was the playwright and director of a band that performed in the area of Lodz. In 1922, he started collecting material for a book about the Yiddisher Theater and actors. The result of his research was a six-volume lexicon of the Yiddisher Theater which to this day constitutes the most comprehensive book about the Yiddisher Theater. The lexicon contains entries about more than 3000 people as well as entries about theatrical bands, organizations of actors, comedians, composers, critics and more.