Aaron Lebedeff, a leading actor in the Yiddish theatre, died here yesterday at the age of 87. Born in Russia, he came to the United States in 1920. He was well known for his original song compositions which he rendered in Yiddish and English. He also produced a number of shows and appeared in several of them in the Nineteen Thirties.
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