Shifra Lerer was an Argentine-born American Yiddish theater actress based in New York City.
12 Facts About Shifra Lerer
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Shifra Lerer was cast in film roles, including the 1997 Woody Allen film Deconstructing Harry.
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Shifra Lerer was born in the Santa Catalina colony in Argentina on August 30,1915.
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Shifra Lerer was discovered in Buenos Aires by Yiddish theater legend, producer and actor Boris Thomashefsky, who was starring in the area, when she was just five or eight years old, at the recommendation of her sister.
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Shifra Lerer then passed the examinations for the actors' union and became a member, playing with the star Miryam Karalova-Kambarov, then Moyshe Oysher and Florence Weiss, and finally in serious drama roles with Zygmunt Turkow in Urteyl, Hirsh Lekert, Ivan Kruger and Di glokn-tsier fun Notr-dam.
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Shifra Lerer joined the actors' union in 1949 and played in Got, mentsh un tayvl with Mikhal Mikhalesko and Gustav Berger.
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Shifra Lerer ultimately decided to settle permanently in New York City.
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Shifra Lerer worked actively in the Yiddish theater circuit until she was 90 years old.
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Shifra Lerer was best friends with the late Yiddish theater actress Mina Bern, who died in 2010.
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Shifra Lerer died of a stroke in Manhattan on March 12,2011, at the age of 95.
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Shifra Lerer was buried in Block 67 of Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, next to her second husband Michael Michalovic.
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Shifra Lerer was buried just rows from Boris Thomashefsky, who discovered Shifra Lerer at the age of 5 in Argentina.