Nellie Casman was an actress and singer in Yiddish theater. Some sources say she was born in Proskurov, Russia, and moved to the United States in the early 1900s; Zylbercweig says she was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Her father was a hazzan. Casman showed such talent as an actress when a child, the actress Rose Rubin took her into a professional Yiddish theater, where she began to play child roles in 1910.
Playing Gitele in Zalmen Libin's Gebrokhene hertser, she came to the...
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