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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|06|mf=y}}<ref name=officialbio>{{cite news |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/301868665 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=March 1, 1985 |page=30|via = [[ProQuest]]}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|06|mf=y}}<ref name=officialbio>{{cite news |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/301868665 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=March 1, 1985 |page=30|via = [[ProQuest]]}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Vilna, Lithuania]], [[Russian Empire]]<ref name=officialbio/>
| birth_place = [[Vilna, Lithuania]], [[Russian Empire]]<ref name=officialbio/>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|02|27|1899|12|06}}<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|last=Berger|first=Joseph|title=Joseph Buloff, an Actor, Dies; Mainstay of Yiddish Theater|date=February 28, 1985|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/28/arts/joseph-buloff-an-actor-dies-mainstay-of-yiddish-theater.html|accessdate=November 25, 2017}}</ref>
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|02|27|1899|12|06}}<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|last=Berger|first=Joseph|title=Joseph Buloff, an Actor, Dies; Mainstay of Yiddish Theater|date=February 28, 1985|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/28/arts/joseph-buloff-an-actor-dies-mainstay-of-yiddish-theater.html|access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Manhattan, New York]], U.S.<ref name=nyt />
| death_place = [[Manhattan, New York]], U.S.<ref name=nyt />
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Buloff immigrated to the United States in 1927 and worked with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish theatre company. Buloff and Kadison toured Europe and the Western Hemisphere in the early 1930s, acting with Yiddish troupes in the countries that they visited. Their productions included adaptations of works by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and translated versions of works by Chekhov, Moliere, and Pirandello.<ref name="nyt2" />
Buloff immigrated to the United States in 1927 and worked with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish theatre company. Buloff and Kadison toured Europe and the Western Hemisphere in the early 1930s, acting with Yiddish troupes in the countries that they visited. Their productions included adaptations of works by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and translated versions of works by Chekhov, Moliere, and Pirandello.<ref name="nyt2" />


Broadway productions in which Buloff appeared included ''The Price'' (1979), ''The Fifth Season'' (1975), ''The Wall'' (1960), ''Moonbirds'' (1959), ''Once More, With Feeling'' (1958), ''Mrs. McThing '' (1952), ''The Whole World Over'' (1947), ''Oklahoma!'' (1943), ''Spring Again'' (1941), ''My Sister Eileen'' (1940), ''Morning Star'' (1940), ''The Man from Cairo'' (1938), ''To Quito and Back'' (1937), ''Call Me Ziggy'' (1937), and ''Don't Look Now'' (1936).<ref>{{cite web |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-buloff-14313 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.vn/gyCp5 |archive-date=December 5, 2020}}</ref>
Broadway productions in which Buloff appeared included ''The Price'' (1979), ''The Fifth Season'' (1975), ''The Wall'' (1960), ''Moonbirds'' (1959), ''Once More, With Feeling'' (1958), ''Mrs. McThing '' (1952), ''The Whole World Over'' (1947), ''Oklahoma!'' (1943), ''Spring Again'' (1941), ''My Sister Eileen'' (1940), ''Morning Star'' (1940), ''The Man from Cairo'' (1938), ''To Quito and Back'' (1937), ''Call Me Ziggy'' (1937), and ''Don't Look Now'' (1936).<ref>{{cite web |title=Joseph Buloff |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/joseph-buloff-14313 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/gyCp5 |archive-date=December 5, 2020}}</ref>


On February 27, 1985, Buloff died at his Manhattan home, aged 86.<ref name=nyt/> He left a memoir, written in Yiddish, which was translated by Joseph Singer and published by Harvard University Press in 1991 as ''From the Old Marketplace''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wisse |first1=Ruth R. |title=The Survivor's Voice – From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff and translated by Joseph Singer |url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/212851966 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=The New Republic |date=June 24, 1991 |page=40|via = [[ProQuest]]}}</ref>
On February 27, 1985, Buloff died at his Manhattan home, aged 86.<ref name=nyt/> He left a memoir, written in Yiddish, which was translated by Joseph Singer and published by Harvard University Press in 1991 as ''From the Old Marketplace''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wisse |first1=Ruth R. |title=The Survivor's Voice – From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff and translated by Joseph Singer |url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/212851966 |access-date=December 5, 2020 |work=The New Republic |date=June 24, 1991 |page=40|via = [[ProQuest]]}}</ref>


==Legacy==
==Legacy==
Some of Buloff's papers are preserved at [[YIVO]]<ref name=yivo>{{cite web|title=Guide to the Papers of Joseph Buloff (1899–1985) and Luba Kadison (1906–2006)|first1=Solomon|last1=Rabinowitz|first2=Rachel S.|last2=Harrison|date=2009|publisher=[[YIVO|YIVO Institute for Jewish Research]]|url=https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/3534|accessdate=May 28, 2020}}</ref> and at the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]].<ref name=nypl>{{cite web|first=Liavon|last=Yurevich|title=Joseph Buloff papers|publisher=[[New York Public Library]]|url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/21798|accessdate=November 25, 2017}}</ref>
Some of Buloff's papers are preserved at [[YIVO]]<ref name=yivo>{{cite web|title=Guide to the Papers of Joseph Buloff (1899–1985) and Luba Kadison (1906–2006)|first1=Solomon|last1=Rabinowitz|first2=Rachel S.|last2=Harrison|date=2009|publisher=[[YIVO|YIVO Institute for Jewish Research]]|url=https://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/3534|access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref> and at the [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]].<ref name=nypl>{{cite web|first=Liavon|last=Yurevich|title=Joseph Buloff papers|publisher=[[New York Public Library]]|url=http://archives.nypl.org/the/21798|access-date=November 25, 2017}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

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Joseph Buloff
Buloff in 1960
Born(1899-12-06)December 6, 1899[1]
DiedFebruary 27, 1985(1985-02-27) (aged 85)[2]
OccupationActor
Years active1923–1981
Spouse
(m. 1925)
[3]
Children1[4]

Joseph Buloff (December 6, 1899 – February 27, 1985) was a Jewish actor and director known for his work in Broadway and Yiddish theatre.[2] He received the Itzik Manger Prize for contributions to Yiddish letters in 1974.[5]

Life and career

Buloff was born on December 6, 1899 in Vilna, in what was then the Russian Empire and is now Lithuania.[1]

Buloff debuted on stage with the Jewish State Theatre in Vilna.[6] He joined the Vilna Troupe when he was a teenager, and "his first major success" came in that company's production of Day and Night by S. Ansky.[3] While with the troupe, he also met Luba Kadison, whom he married and remained with until his death six decades later.[3] They had a daughter, Barbara.[4]

Buloff immigrated to the United States in 1927 and worked with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish theatre company. Buloff and Kadison toured Europe and the Western Hemisphere in the early 1930s, acting with Yiddish troupes in the countries that they visited. Their productions included adaptations of works by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and translated versions of works by Chekhov, Moliere, and Pirandello.[3]

Broadway productions in which Buloff appeared included The Price (1979), The Fifth Season (1975), The Wall (1960), Moonbirds (1959), Once More, With Feeling (1958), Mrs. McThing (1952), The Whole World Over (1947), Oklahoma! (1943), Spring Again (1941), My Sister Eileen (1940), Morning Star (1940), The Man from Cairo (1938), To Quito and Back (1937), Call Me Ziggy (1937), and Don't Look Now (1936).[7]

On February 27, 1985, Buloff died at his Manhattan home, aged 86.[2] He left a memoir, written in Yiddish, which was translated by Joseph Singer and published by Harvard University Press in 1991 as From the Old Marketplace.[8]

Legacy

Some of Buloff's papers are preserved at YIVO[5] and at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.[9]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1941 Let's Make Music Joe Bellah
1941 They Met in Argentina Santiago, O'Shea's Trainer
1947 Carnegie Hall Anton Tribik
1948 To the Victor Bolyanov
1948 The Loves of Carmen Remendado
1949 A Kiss in the Dark Peter Danilo
1950 Monticello, Here We Come
1956 Somebody Up There Likes Me Benny
1957 Silk Stockings Ivanov
1981 Reds Joe Volski

References

  1. ^ a b c "Joseph Buloff". San Francisco Chronicle. March 1, 1985. p. 30. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  2. ^ a b c d Berger, Joseph (February 28, 1985). "Joseph Buloff, an Actor, Dies; Mainstay of Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Howe, Irving (March 31, 1985). "The Art of Joseph Buloff". The New York Times. p. H 4. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ a b Bevya Rosten, "In Short: Nonfiction: They Opened in Vilna". New York Times (April 25, 1993): BR20.
  5. ^ a b Rabinowitz, Solomon; Harrison, Rachel S. (2009). "Guide to the Papers of Joseph Buloff (1899–1985) and Luba Kadison (1906–2006)". YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Schack, William (November 23, 1930). "Introducing Joseph Buloff of Russia". The New York Times. p. 112. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  7. ^ "Joseph Buloff". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on December 5, 2020. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  8. ^ Wisse, Ruth R. (June 24, 1991). "The Survivor's Voice – From the Old Marketplace by Joseph Buloff and translated by Joseph Singer". The New Republic. p. 40. Retrieved December 5, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  9. ^ Yurevich, Liavon. "Joseph Buloff papers". New York Public Library. Retrieved November 25, 2017.