Moishe Finkel

Moishe Finkel (? –1904) (a.k.a. Morris or Maurice Finkel) was a prominent figure in the early years of Yiddish theater. He was business partner first of Abraham Goldfaden and later of Sigmund Mogulesko (the greatest Yiddish star of the generation) and, for a time, was married to prima donna Annetta Schwartz. Together, they dominated Yiddish theatre in Bucharest in the early 1880s and in New York City in the late 1880s and into the 1890s, with a repertoire based mainly in the works of Joseph Lateiner and Moses Horowitz. However, when the vogue ended for these early Yiddish operettas, Finkel's career took a downturn, and he ultimately committed suicide in New York in 1904, only a year or so before a wave of new immigrants brought on a revival of the type of theater with which he was associated.

Related Topics:
1904 - Yiddish theater - Abraham Goldfaden - Sigmund Mogulesko - Prima donna - Annetta Schwartz - 1880s - New York City - 1890s - Joseph Lateiner - Moses Horowitz - Operetta - Suicide

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Jacob Adler wrote of him that he "never smiled".

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