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==Biography==
==Biography==
===Early life===
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Juvelier was born in Lemberg, [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (today [[Lviv]], [[Ukraine]]) on May 12, 1863.<ref name="1906 natl card" /><ref name="1913 passport application">{{cite web |title=Kalman Juvelier. Migration • United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-GTC7 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> His parents were Isaiah Juvelier and Yetta (née Berger).<ref name="1910 marriage record" /> In his teens he traveled throughout [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] performing as a folk singer. He worked with the [[Broder singer|Broder singer, and]] toured [[Romania]] and [[Bukovina]] as an itinerant actor. Juvelier briefly joined [[Moses Horowitz]]'s troupe as a singer in 1880. While working as an actor there he met his first wife, Yetta Rauch, who was the prima donna of the troupe.<ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2">{{cite book |last1=Zylbercweig |first1=Zalmen |last2=Mestel |first2=Jacob |title=Leḳsiḳon fun Yidishn ṭeaṭer |date=1931 |publisher=Elisheva |location=New York |pages=2561-2 |url=https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc201092 |language=yi}}</ref> Kalman soon took over direction of the troupe and they spent the next two decades touring in [[Bukovina]], Galicia, the [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]], [[Egypt]], and the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2" /> Among the notables who participated in his troupe during this time were [[Sigmund Mogulesko]] and [[Abraham Goldfaden]].
Juvelier was born in Lemberg, [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], [[Austria-Hungary]] (today [[Lviv]], [[Ukraine]]) on May 12, 1863.<ref name="1906 natl card" /><ref name="1913 passport application">{{cite web |title=Kalman Juvelier. Migration • United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-GTC7 |website=FamilySearch |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> His parents were Isaiah Juvelier and Yetta (née Berger).<ref name="1910 marriage record" />
===European theatre career===
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In his teens he traveled throughout [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] performing as a folk singer. He worked with the [[Broder singer|Broder singer, and]] toured [[Romania]] and [[Bukovina]] as an itinerant actor. Juvelier briefly joined [[Moses Horowitz]]'s troupe as a singer in 1880. While working as an actor there he met his first wife, Yetta Rauch, who was the prima donna of the troupe.<ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2">{{cite book |last1=Zylbercweig |first1=Zalmen |last2=Mestel |first2=Jacob |title=Leḳsiḳon fun Yidishn ṭeaṭer |date=1931 |publisher=Elisheva |location=New York |pages=2561-2 |url=https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc201092 |language=yi}}</ref> Kalman soon took over direction of the troupe and they spent the next two decades touring, performing [[Operetta|operettas]] and plays by [[Avram Goldfaden]], [[Jacob Gordin]], [[Joseph Lateiner]] and others in [[Bukovina]], Galicia, the [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]], [[Egypt]], and the [[Ottoman Empire]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Teatrul Jigniţa |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/egalit/1896/07/17/01/article/5/?srpos=20&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxTI-Juvelier-------------1 |work=⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ |date=July 17, 1896 |language=ro}}</ref><ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2" />


In the 1890s his troupe continued to tour successfully and featured such actors as [[Bertha Kalich]], Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, and Malbina Treitler, as well as Juvelier himself.<ref>{{cite news |title=Teatrul Jigniţa |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/egalit/1895/08/02/01/article/5/?srpos=11&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxTI-Juvelier-------------1 |work=⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ |date=August 2, 1895 |language=ro}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=advertisement. |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/egalit/1895/11/08/01/article/12.1/?srpos=13&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxTI-Juvelier-------------1 |work=⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ |date=November 8, 1895 |language=ro}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=advertisement. |url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/egalit/1895/08/30/01/article/11.1/?srpos=12&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxTI-Juvelier-------------1 |work=Egalitatea |date=August 30, 1895 |language=ro}}</ref>
===United States===
In 1899 or 1900 Juvelier emigrated to New York City, sailing from [[Hamburg]].<ref name="nyt obit" /><ref name="1913 passport application" /> His first major role was as head of the Windsor Theatre.<ref name="daily eagle obit" /> There he made many [[Yiddish Language|Yiddish language]] recordings.<ref>http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/J/juvelier-kalmen.htm</ref> He became a [[Naturalized citizen of the United States|Naturalized citizen]] in 1906.<ref name="1906 natl card">{{cite web |title=Kalman Juvelier. Migration • New York Naturalization Index (Soundex), 1792-1906 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVT7-YKTD |website=FamilySearch |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> His first wife Yetta died in New York in 1908.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yetta Dora Juvelier (1862-1908) - Find A Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131792791/yetta-dora-juvelier |website=Find a Grave |access-date=22 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2" />
In 1899 or 1900 Juvelier emigrated to New York City, sailing from [[Hamburg]].<ref name="nyt obit" /><ref name="1913 passport application" /> His first major role was as head of the Windsor Theatre.<ref name="daily eagle obit" /> There he made many [[Yiddish Language|Yiddish language]] recordings.<ref>http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/J/juvelier-kalmen.htm</ref> He became a [[Naturalized citizen of the United States|Naturalized citizen]] in 1906.<ref name="1906 natl card">{{cite web |title=Kalman Juvelier. Migration • New York Naturalization Index (Soundex), 1792-1906 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVT7-YKTD |website=FamilySearch |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> His first wife Yetta died in New York in 1908.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yetta Dora Juvelier (1862-1908) - Find A Grave... |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131792791/yetta-dora-juvelier |website=Find a Grave |access-date=22 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="LFYT 4 2561-2" />


Revision as of 15:35, 22 July 2021

Kalman Juvelier, circa 1906

Kalman Juvelier (Template:Lang-yi, 1863-1939) was an Austrian-born Yiddish theatre actor, Broder singer, and recording artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was active both in Europe and the United States.[1][2] After emigrating to the United States in 1900, he became a key figure in the Yiddish theatre in New York, working with such notables as Boris Thomashefsky, David Kessler, Bertha Kalich and Jacob P. Adler and was director of the Hebrew Actor's Union as well as the Jewish Theatrical Alliance.[3][2] From roughly 1909 to 1918, he recorded a few dozen Yiddish language discs for Columbia Records, Zonophone, and the Victor Recording Company.[4]

Biography

Early life

Juvelier was born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Lviv, Ukraine) on May 12, 1863.[5][6] His parents were Isaiah Juvelier and Yetta (née Berger).[7]

European theatre career

In his teens he traveled throughout Galicia performing as a folk singer. He worked with the Broder singer, and toured Romania and Bukovina as an itinerant actor. Juvelier briefly joined Moses Horowitz's troupe as a singer in 1880. While working as an actor there he met his first wife, Yetta Rauch, who was the prima donna of the troupe.[8] Kalman soon took over direction of the troupe and they spent the next two decades touring, performing operettas and plays by Avram Goldfaden, Jacob Gordin, Joseph Lateiner and others in Bukovina, Galicia, the Romania, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire.[9][8]

In the 1890s his troupe continued to tour successfully and featured such actors as Bertha Kalich, Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, and Malbina Treitler, as well as Juvelier himself.[10][11][12]

United States

In 1899 or 1900 Juvelier emigrated to New York City, sailing from Hamburg.[3][6] His first major role was as head of the Windsor Theatre.[2] There he made many Yiddish language recordings.[13] He became a Naturalized citizen in 1906.[5] His first wife Yetta died in New York in 1908.[14][8]

In November 1910 he married his second wife Bina Abramovitz, a Russian-born Yiddish theatre actress.[15][7]

He retired from the stage in around 1935.[3]

He died at age 76, on December 15, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York.[2][16] He was buried in Washington Cemetery.[17]

References

  1. ^ Carter, Scott A.; Sapoznik, Henry. "Juvelier, Kalman". Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Kalman Juvelier, Yiddish State Star". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 15, 1939.
  3. ^ a b c "KALMAN JUVELIER: LONG HAD APPEARED ON YIDDISH STAGE HERE AND IN EUROPE". New York Times. December 15, 1939.
  4. ^ "Juvelier, Kalman". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Kalman Juvelier. Migration • New York Naturalization Index (Soundex), 1792-1906". FamilySearch. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Kalman Juvelier. Migration • United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925". FamilySearch. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Kalman Juvelier. Marriage • New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940". FamilySearch.
  8. ^ a b c Zylbercweig, Zalmen; Mestel, Jacob (1931). Leḳsiḳon fun Yidishn ṭeaṭer (in Yiddish). New York: Elisheva. pp. 2561–2.
  9. ^ "Teatrul Jigniţa". ⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ (in Romanian). July 17, 1896.
  10. ^ "Teatrul Jigniţa". ⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ (in Romanian). August 2, 1895.
  11. ^ "advertisement". ⁨⁨Egalitatea⁩⁩ (in Romanian). November 8, 1895.
  12. ^ "advertisement". Egalitatea (in Romanian). August 30, 1895.
  13. ^ http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/J/juvelier-kalmen.htm
  14. ^ "Yetta Dora Juvelier (1862-1908) - Find A Grave..." Find a Grave. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Bina Juvelier. Migration • United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925". FamilySearch. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  16. ^ "Kalman Juveleier in the New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948". Ancestry Library. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  17. ^ "Kalman Juvelier (unknown-1939) - Find A Grave..." Find a Grave. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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