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Zaslawski, Jewish Actor, Dies in Danzig of Heart Attack

June 8, 1936
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Rudolph Zaslawski, Jewish actor and director, died today of a heart attack at the age of fifty. He established the Yiddish Peoples’ Theatre in Buenos Aires and toured the United States in 1926.

After playing in New York, Philadelphia and other American cities at the close of 1926, Zaslawski returned to Europe and in 1928 founded a Jewish theatre in Warsaw. Afterward he toured a number of European capitals and then returned to Poland.

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