Yehoshua Bertonov (Hebrew: ×™×"ושע ×'×¨×˜×•× ×•×'‎, March 16 1881
â€" c. 1971) was an Israeli stage actor.Bertonov was born on March
16 1881 in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), then part of the Russian
Empire. He acted in the Russian municipal theater in Vilna from 1905
to 1911. After initially playing small roles, he was at one point
unexpectedly called upon to play the role of Shmaga in Alexander
Ostrovsky's play Guilty Without Guilt, filling in for an actor who had
fallen ill; the performance was such a success that he henceforth
became the lead comic actor of the troupe.He went on to act and direct
on the Russian stage in other cities; for a time he was the director
of the Russian state theater in Tiflis (today, Tbilisi, Georgia),
where he simultaneously led a Yiddish amateur theater.He established a
Jewish amateur theatre group that performed in the Sholem Aleichem
theatre in Moscow.
â€" c. 1971) was an Israeli stage actor.Bertonov was born on March
16 1881 in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania), then part of the Russian
Empire. He acted in the Russian municipal theater in Vilna from 1905
to 1911. After initially playing small roles, he was at one point
unexpectedly called upon to play the role of Shmaga in Alexander
Ostrovsky's play Guilty Without Guilt, filling in for an actor who had
fallen ill; the performance was such a success that he henceforth
became the lead comic actor of the troupe.He went on to act and direct
on the Russian stage in other cities; for a time he was the director
of the Russian state theater in Tiflis (today, Tbilisi, Georgia),
where he simultaneously led a Yiddish amateur theater.He established a
Jewish amateur theatre group that performed in the Sholem Aleichem
theatre in Moscow.
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