Moishe Oysher was an American cantor, recording artist, and film and Yiddish theatre actor.
15 Facts About Moishe Oysher
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Moishe Oysher's father departed for America when Moyshe was young, leaving him with his grandfather.
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Moishe Oysher started acting in school and played a few roles in the poet Eliezer Steinberg's Der Berditchever Rov.
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Moishe Oysher named Steinberg as a profound influence on his life.
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Moishe Oysher was able to retrain his voice and began singing again in literary and dramatic clubs.
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Moishe Oysher met actor Wolf Shumsky and traveled with him to Winnipeg, where he played Yiddish theater for three seasons.
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Moishe Oysher was allowed into the Canadian Actors' Union in 1924 and played in the Montreal Yiddish theater under the direction of Isidore Hollander.
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Moishe Oysher married Florence Weiss in Newark in January 1929.
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Moishe Oysher then played with Boris Thomashevsky, then in 1932, he started his own company and traveled to Buenos Aires and across Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
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Moishe Oysher thereafter worked around the world in both arenas.
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In 1943 Moishe Oysher signed a contract with Fortune Gallo to perform several roles with the Chicago Opera Company and a fine career was foreseen, but after a heart attack he had to abandon the idea; he continued to work in radio and as a and recording artist until, after other heart attacks, on the advice of his doctors, he entered semi-retirement.
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Moishe Oysher died in New Rochelle from undisclosed causes in 1958 aged 52, although his age was misreported as 51.
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Moishe Oysher was survived by his second wife Theodora, their daughter Shoshana, his sister Fraydele and her husband Harold Sternberg, a chorister in the Metropolitan opera; their daughter is recording artist Marilyn Michaels.
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Moishe Oysher died in 1958, aged 52, and is interred in Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus, New Jersey.
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Moishe Oysher is the "Vilner Balabesl" - a cantor in Vilnius - with a renowned voice.