Warsaw Courtyards

A restlessly busy actor with a strong literary bent, Avrom Teytlboym began his career with productions by Y. L. Peretz. An itinerant period followed in which Teytlboym, who was born in Warsaw, moved between London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Moscow, and Vilna, landing finally in New York, where he performed alongside Maurice Schwartz. Along the way, Teytlboym also directed, produced, and stage managed plays, and he published myriad articles and reviews in Yiddish periodicals, earning the sobriquet “the Literary Actor.” Toward the end of his life, he returned to the Warsaw of his childhood, producing his most lasting work.