Ruzha Fuchs
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Ruzha Fuchs (1890–1942), Yiddish theater actress. Born in Lemburg (Lviv
). She entered the chorus of a Polish-language theater because she didn't know much Yiddish, but through connections was taken into the Yiddish theater chorus a month later. The director, Adolf Gimpel, was favorable impressed and cast her as Yitskhok in Abraham Goldfaden
's Akeydos Yitskhok (The Sacrifice of Isaac). After a few months in Lemburg, she was engaged in Rumania and then Chernovets, as a soubrette
- and she became der libling fun teater-oylem (the darling of the theater audiences). After three years she returned to Lemburg.
In 1915 she played in the Polish-language Bagatela miniature theater. In 1917 she starred in Pinsk. She and character actor Yakov Fuchs
were the parents of the famous Polish-American actor Leo Fuchs
. After Yakov she remarried, to the actor Georg (Gershon) Rot. Soon after Molly Picon ended her tour in Lemburg, Ruzha took over her roles in Yankele and Tsipke Fayer.
When the Red Army took Lemburg, a new Yiddish theater took over the Koloseum theater, and Fuchs and her second husband played there. When the Germans took Lemburg in World War II, some members of the theater troupe, including Ruzha, were trapped in Rovne and sent to the ghetto, where Rosa was shot.
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
). She entered the chorus of a Polish-language theater because she didn't know much Yiddish, but through connections was taken into the Yiddish theater chorus a month later. The director, Adolf Gimpel, was favorable impressed and cast her as Yitskhok in Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden ; was an Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays.Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre.In 1876 he founded in...
's Akeydos Yitskhok (The Sacrifice of Isaac). After a few months in Lemburg, she was engaged in Rumania and then Chernovets, as a soubrette
Soubrette
A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".-Theater:...
- and she became der libling fun teater-oylem (the darling of the theater audiences). After three years she returned to Lemburg.
In 1915 she played in the Polish-language Bagatela miniature theater. In 1917 she starred in Pinsk. She and character actor Yakov Fuchs
Yakov Fuchs
Yakov Fuchs , Yiddish theater actor. Born in Lemburg , Galitsia, he joined a Yiddish theater chorus at the age of 17 and after singing in Lemburg and Rumania for a short time, he became a soloist and then starred in Professor Hurvitz's operetta Jacob and Esau. Yakov's voice deteriorated due to lung...
were the parents of the famous Polish-American actor Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs
Leo Fuchs was a Polish-born Jewish American actor. According to YIVO, born Avrum Leib Fuchs in Warsaw; according to Schechter, born in Lemberg, Galicia, then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine)....
. After Yakov she remarried, to the actor Georg (Gershon) Rot. Soon after Molly Picon ended her tour in Lemburg, Ruzha took over her roles in Yankele and Tsipke Fayer.
When the Red Army took Lemburg, a new Yiddish theater took over the Koloseum theater, and Fuchs and her second husband played there. When the Germans took Lemburg in World War II, some members of the theater troupe, including Ruzha, were trapped in Rovne and sent to the ghetto, where Rosa was shot.