Jonas Turkow

Jonas Turkow was born in 1898 in Warsaw, Poland and died in 1987 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He was an actor, stage manager, director and writer.

He was the brother of the actor Zygmunt Turkow, the actor and writer Icchak Turkow and the journalist Marek Turkow, and husband of the famous actress Diana Blumenfeld.

In 1916, with his brother Zygmunt, he organized and performed in Dos artistishe vinkele (The artistic corner), then spent some time with David Herman and in the brothers Hernfeld's German comedy theater.. From 1917-1920 he played in Esther-Rukhl Kaminski's troup; in 1921 he organized Dos baveglekhe dramatishe teater touring Poland and Galitsia. Subsequently he toured with Di yunge bine (The young stage). In 1926 he was hired to direct the cultural Yiddish theatre in Kraków. He received the first state subsidy given in Poland to any Yiddish theater.[1] During the 1930s he was director for kleynkunst revi-teater in Kaunas.[2]

He was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto during the years 1940-43, and was later a member of the underground. After the war, as a member of the Central Jewish Committee of Poland, he investigated 18 cases of Jewish collaboration with German Gestapo. He lived since 1950 in Israel.

Jonas Turkow performed in the following movies as an actor:

Jonas Turkow directed:

Jonas Turkow wrote:

References

  1. ↑ Zylbercweig, Zalmen, Leksikon fun Yidishn teater, Book 2, column 871
  2. ↑ http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/oppenheimmenasha/index.html Bio at Yiddishmusic
  3. ↑ Turkow, Jonas. O levante do gueto de Varsovia / Jonas Turkow; tradução, Ayala Ehrlich. – São Paulo: Federação Israelita do Estado de São Paulo, 1975 Mifaley Tarbut ve-Hinukh Tel Awiw 1969 Jonas Turkow
  4. ↑ Jonas Turkow: In Kamf farn Lebn, Buenos Aires, 1949
  5. ↑ onas Turkow: Azoi iz es Geven, Buenos Aires, 1948
  6. ↑ Jonas Turkow:"Nokh der befrayung – zikhroynes" [Yiddish], Buenos Aires 1959
  7. ↑ Jonas Turkow: "Farloshene shtern" [Yiddish], 1953
  8. ↑ Jonas Turkow: "Teater un Konsertn in die Getos un Konstentratsye Lagern," in Yidisher Teater in Yirope…Poilen. Nowy Jork, (1968). Knight Publishing.
  9. ↑ Jonas Turkow ( Ionas Turkov): C'était ainsi. 1939-1943 la vie dans le ghetto de Varsovie. Paris: Austral, 1995
  10. ↑ Jonas Turkow: "This is How It Was…", published. By the Association of Polish Jews in Argentina, 1948 (529 pages)

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