Services were held here this afternoon for Michel Rosenberg, a star with Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre and as Muttei in the television series “The Goldbergs,” who died Saturday in Miami Beach at the age of 71.
Born in Warsaw, Mr. Rosenberg was associated with Schwartz’s New York-based troupe for a quarter-century, appearing in such plays as “Yoshe Kalb” and “The Brothers Ashkenazi,” and subsequently became a monologist whose best-known character was “Getzei.”
A member of the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, Mr. Rosenberg starred in such Yiddish films as “Mirele Efros” and “The Cantor’s Son” and in the Israeli films “Uncle Sam in Israel” and “Highway Robbery.” He last appeared on Broadway in 1968 in “Borscht Capades.”
Baron Edmund de Rothschild, the French financier and philanthropist, was today made an honorary citizen of Rishon LeZion. After ceremonies in the Town Hall he visited the wine cellars established by his grandfather nearly 100 years ago.
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