Yakov Fuchs
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Yakov Fuchs Yiddish theater actor. Born in Lemburg (Lviv
), 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 disease and he became a character actor. He played both comedies and serious dramas. He died of lung disease in Lemburg.
His wife Ruzha Fuchs
was a beloved and successful Yiddish theater star; their son Leo Fuchs
was a famous actor.
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...
), 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
Moses Horowitz
Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz , also known as Moishe Hurvitz, Moishe Isaac Halevy-Hurvitz, etc., was a playwright and actor in the early years of Yiddish theater...
's operetta Jacob and Esau. Yakov's voice deteriorated due to lung disease and he became a character actor. He played both comedies and serious dramas. He died of lung disease in Lemburg.
His wife Ruzha Fuchs
Ruzha Fuchs
Ruzha Fuchs , Yiddish theater actress. Born in Lemburg . 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...
was a beloved and successful Yiddish theater star; their son 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)....
was a famous actor.