Bertha Kalich
Actress in American Yiddish Theatre (1874-1939) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 64
Bertha Kalich was a Jewish-American actress. Though she was well-established as an entertainer in Eastern Europe, she is best remembered as one of the several "larger-than-life" figures that dominated New York stages during the "Golden Age" of American Yiddish Theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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A placard for the Thalia Yiddish Theatre's production of Hamlet starring "Madam Bertha Kalish" in the title role
Kalich as Miriam Friedlander in The Kreutzer Sonata, a play based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, adapted from Yiddish play Jacob Gordin by Langdon Mitchell; performed on Broadway, 1906.
Manuel Rosenberg caricature of Bertha Kalich
Kalich, c. 1900About this person
Though she was well-established as an entertainer in Eastern Europe, she is best remembered as one of the several "larger-than-life" figures that dominated New York stages during the "Golden Age" of American Yiddish Theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Historians estimate that, during her career, Kalich performed more than 125 different roles in seven different languages.
