Jewish Badkhonim-Actors

Dov Ber Slutsky

1936

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Some decades ago Jewish badkhonim-actors [jesters] were still a very common phenomenon. Most of the time the badkhn was not only an entertainer improvising rhymes and funny sayings, but also an actor performing for an audience with all the actors’ paraphernalia, makeup, costumes, etc.

Badkhonim-actors were not a local phenomenon. They…

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Dov Ber Slutsky

1877–1955

Dov Ber Slutsky was a philologist, novelist and short-story writer, and publicist from Ukraine who wrote for Der fraynd. In Kiev he worked at the Institute for Yiddish Culture. After World War II, Slutsky moved to Birobidzhan. He was arrested by the Soviets in 1949 and died in Siberia.

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