Born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, Luba Kadison was a founding member of the renowned Yiddish theatre company, the Vilna Troupe. She performed in the original production of Sholom Anski's The Dybbuk (1920, Warsaw) and played the lead role of Leah throughout her years on the stage. She married the actor Joseph Buloff in 1924 and came to New York with him in 1927 to join Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater. When Buloff began performing on Broadway and in Hollywood, Kadison continued acting with Schwartz in New York. In a career spanning several decades and many countries, she performed in I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi, (1938, New York) played Stella Adler's love interest in Sholom Asch's God of Vengeance (1928, New York) and won great acclaim for such roles as Anna Karenina (late 1950s, Buenos Aires) and Linda in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1951, Brooklyn). The Buloff-Kadison Archives are at Harvard University which also published their memoirs, On Stage, Off Stage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theatre (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Buloff's novel based on his childhood in Vilna, From the Old Marketplace (Harvard University Press, 1991).
Born in 1906 in Kovno, Lithuania, Luba Kadison was a founding member of the renowned Yiddish theatre company, the Vilna Troupe. She performed in the original production of Sholom Anski's The Dybbuk (1920, Warsaw) and played the lead role of Leah throughout her years on the stage. She married the actor Joseph Buloff in 1924 and came to New York with him in 1927 to join Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater. When Buloff began performing on Broadway and in Hollywood, Kadison continued acting with Schwartz in New York. In a career spanning several decades and many countries, she performed in I.J. Singer's The Brothers Ashkenazi, (1938, New York) played Stella Adler's love interest in Sholom Asch's God of Vengeance (1928, New York) and won great acclaim for such roles as Anna Karenina (late 1950s, Buenos Aires) and Linda in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1951, Brooklyn). The Buloff-Kadison Archives are at Harvard University which also published their memoirs, On Stage, Off Stage: Memories of a Lifetime in the Yiddish Theatre (Harvard University Press, 1992) and Buloff's novel based on his childhood in Vilna, From the Old Marketplace (Harvard University Press, 1991).
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