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Name: Bertha Kalich  
   
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Date of Birth: 17th May 1874
   
Place of Birth: Lemberg (Lwów), Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
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Bertha Kalich (May 17, 1874 – April 18, 1939) was a Jewish actress, born in Lemberg, Galicia (now Lviv, Ukraine), primarily known for her roles in Yiddish theater in New York City. Originally brought to America by David Kessler, her roles were mainly "women of the world": the title characters of Pierre Berton and Charles Simon's play Zaza, Victorien Sardou's Fédora, Jacob Gordin's Sappho, and Magda in Hermann Sudermann's Heimat. Under the tutelage of Harrison Grey Fiske, she also starred on Broadway in plays such as Maeterlinck's Monna Vanna. [Adler, 1999, 361 (commentary)]

Kalich also followed in the path of Sarah Bernhardt, being the second woman ever to play the title role of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

She is buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing Queens, New York.

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