Joseph Buloff

Joseph Buloff was an actor and director whose career spanned Yiddish theater and Broadway. He started on stage in Vilna and as a teenager joined the Vilna Troupe, where his first major success came in the troupe's production of Day and Night by S. Ansky. He moved to the United States in 1927 and acted with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish company. In the early 1930s he toured Europe and the Western Hemisphere with Yiddish troupes, taking part in adaptations of Dostoevski and Tolstoy as well as translated works by Chekhov, Molière, and Pirandello. His Broadway credits included Oklahoma! (1943), My Sister Eileen (1940), and The Price (1979). In 1974 he was awarded the Itzik Manger Prize for his contributions to Yiddish letters. His memoir appeared in English in 1991 as From the Old Marketplace, translated by Joseph Singer. He died in 1985.