Herman Yablokoff
Herman Yablokoff (August 11, 1903 – April 3, 1981), Yiddish: הערמאַן יאַבלאָקאָף, Russian: Герман Яблоков, born Chaim Yablonik, Хаим Яблоник), sometimes written Herman Yablokov, Herman Yablokow, etc., was a Belarusian-born Jewish American actor, singer, composer, poet, playwright, director and producer who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre.
Biography
He was born into a poor family in Grodno (Hrodna), then a predominantly Polish town in the Russian Empire, now within Belarus. His parents were Alter Yablonik, a road paver, and Riva-Lei Shillingoff, and he received a traditional Jewish religious education in cheder and yeshiva. He sang in the choir of Cantor Yoshe Slonimer at the age of ten, and at the age of 12 began performing in the local Jewish theatre. In 1920 he left home to join a Yiddish theatre group, the Kovner Fareynikte Trup (United Troupe of Kovno) traveling around the cities and towns of Lithuania, Poland and Germany.
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Heřmaň (České Budějovice District)
Heřmaň (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɦɛr̝maɲ]) German: Hermansdorf) is a small village in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has cca 157 inhabitants.
Historie
The first written mention about settlement in this point is from 1400, the village was established in 1787.
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Heřmaň (Písek District)
Heřmaň is a village and municipality (obec) in Písek District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of 7.0529 square kilometres (2.7231 sq mi), and has a population of 230 (as at 2008).
Heřmaň lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Písek, 38 km (24 mi) north-west of České Budějovice, and 98 km (61 mi) south of Prague.
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