Kalman Juvelier

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Kalman Juvelier, circa 1906

Kalman Juvelier (

Yiddish language discs, mostly Yiddish theatre music, for most of the major record labels in the New York area.[7][8]

Biography

Early life

Juvelier was born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Lviv, Ukraine) on May 12, 1863.[9][10] He was born into a poor family; his parents were Isaiah Juvelier and Yetta (née Berger).[11][3] He trained as a choir singer under Cantor Baruch Shor at age 9, and then with Cantor Aharon-Sholem Shirman.[3][1]

European theatre career

By his teen years, Juvelier had left Lemberg and began to travel as an itinerant folk singer. He fell in with the

Avram Goldfaden, Jacob Gordin, Joseph Lateiner and others in Bukovina, Galicia, the Romania, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire.[15][14][16]

In the 1890s his troupe continued to tour successfully and featured such actors as Bertha Kalich, Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, and Malbina Treitler, as well as a whole generation of younger Yiddish actors.[3][17][18][19][20] Herman Wohl, who would later become a well-known composer of Yiddish music in the United States, also wrote for Juvelier's troupe during this time, as did the Hazzan and Yiddish songwriter Zeydl Helman.[21] In some cases, Juvelier's troupe performed "bootleg" versions of Goldfaden plays, as in 1895 in Iași where he was able to find someone who had seen and memorized most of The Sacrifice of Isaac and could write it down for Juvelier.[22] Goldfaden found out and attempted to sue Juvelier, but lost because the play was based on a Biblical story.[13] His performance of a Yiddish adaptation of The Gypsy Baron was particularly successful, with Kalish coming to the attention of elite circles in Bucharest after its performance there.[17]

United States

In 1899 or 1900 Juvelier emigrated to New York City along with his entire troupe, sailing from

Naturalized citizen in 1906.[9] And by 1907 he was making recordings from Yiddish musicals and operettas by such composers as Goldfaden, Louis Friedsell, and Herman Wohl for Edison Records.[26][27] By 1910 he had moved on to recording for Zonophone Records, and Columbia Records in 1912.[8]

In the early 1910s he worked at the Liberty Theatre with

Victor Recording Company in New York, recording a number of solo tracks and some with Fannie Lubritsky.[8] His troupe with Yiddish theatre actress Regina Prager (the Prager-Juvelier Operetta Company), which had been founded sometime before 1907, embarked on a number of successful tours around the United States during the 1910s.[28][29][30][31] During that time he returned to Columbia and Victor Records again several times, recording a long list of tracks for them during and after World War I.[8][32]

From 1921 to 1928, he worked in the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and then returned to New York to work at the Second Avenue Theatre and others for a few short stints in the early 1930s.[3] He retired from the stage in around 1935.[6]

He died at age 76, on December 15, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York.[5][33][34]

Family

Kalman's children were mostly born in Europe with his first wife Yetta Rauch. She died in New York in 1908.[14] Their children were Clara (born 1886), Max (born 1893), and Jennie (Bella, born 1904 in New York), who started off in the Yiddish and English theatre and later became a radio actor.[14][5][3] He married his second wife Bina Abramovitz in 1910, a Russian-born Yiddish theatre actress.[35][11]

References

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  4. ^ Carter, Scott A.; Sapoznik, Henry. "Juvelier, Kalman". Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Kalman Juvelier, Yiddish State Star". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 15, 1939.
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  9. ^ a b "Kalman Juvelier. Migration • New York Naturalization Index (Soundex), 1792-1906". FamilySearch. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
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  22. ^ Berkovitsh, Yisrael (1976). Hunderṭ yor Yidish ṭeaṭer in Rumenye, 1876-1976 (in Yiddish). Bucharest: Kriteryon. pp. 115–6.
  23. ^ "ק. יאװעליער". ארבייטער צייטונג (in Yiddish). July 28, 1901.
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  26. ^ "Advance List of Hebrew Selections and South American National Hymns". The Edison Phonograph Monthly. 5 (9). National Phonograph Co.: 5 November 1907.
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  32. ^ "listings". Victor Records Catalogue. Victor Talking Machine Company: 163. November 1915.
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  34. ^ "KALMAN JUVELIER". Variety. New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company. December 20, 1939.
  35. ^ "Bina Juvelier. Migration • United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925". FamilySearch. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

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