Abba Kompaneyets

Abba Kompaneyets (Абе or Аба Гирш-Лейбович Компанеец; 1870–1946) was a Yiddish theatre troupe manager and actor in Russia, Latvia and Poland.

His wife was the actress Leah (Леи Компанеец born Гершанович), his daughter the actress Betty Kompaneyets-Rabinovitsch (Бетти Компанеец-Рабинович) (1900–?) who emigrated with her husband Leon to Mexico where their daughters Fanya Rabel became a well-known painter and Melakha Rabel a writer.

References

  1. ↑ Gilles Rozier Moyshe Broderzon: un écrivain yiddish d'avant-garde 1999 - Page 271 "KOMPANEYETS, Abe (1870—1946) "
  2. ↑ Jeffrey Veidlinger, Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire, page 208, 2009 "... be acquired from Warsaw brokers like Kompaneyets's Warsaw Yiddish Theater (Varshaver idisher teatr) publishing house or could be read in serials like Di yidishe bihne (The Jewish Stage). "
  3. ↑ Anna Tzelniker Three for the price of one - 1991 - Page 21 "theatres— Kaminska's Theatre and Kompaneyet's Theatre. In Kompaneyet's Theatre they were contemplating producing a play by the name of Tzu Shpet (too late): or Di Farfirte, the story of a girl's ruination. (In those days, all plays had two ...")
  4. ↑ Zalmen Zylbercweig Lives in the Yiddish Theatre 1931-1969 - Betty Kompaneyets-Rabinovitsh