Yiddish Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/yiddish/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Fri, 06 Oct 2023 14:49:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Yiddish Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/yiddish/ 32 32 Frank Seiden: A Galician Jewish Jack-of-all-Trades in Turn-of-the-Century New York https://forgottengalicia.com/frank-seiden-a-galician-jewish-jack-of-all-trades-in-turn-of-the-century-new-york/ https://forgottengalicia.com/frank-seiden-a-galician-jewish-jack-of-all-trades-in-turn-of-the-century-new-york/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2021 08:58:00 +0000 https://forgottengalicia.com/?p=11450 By Daniel Carkner Frank Seiden is an enigmatic figure of the early Jewish entertainment world in the United States. Born in Galicia in 1860, he arrived in New York’s Lower East side in 1877 and eventually became known as a street performer, magician, and vaudeville actor. By 1900 he became […]

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