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Profile of Zypora Spaisman
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Zypora Spaisman |
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2nd January 1916 |
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Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Poland] |
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Actress |
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Zypora Spaisman was born Zypora Tannenbaum in Lublin, Poland on January 2, 1916.
She worked as a midwife for many years, including during the horrible years of World War 2, when she saw many babies and their families suffer.
After emigrating to the United States in the 1950s, she became an actress. She kept New York's famed Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre alive for 42 years, before going to the Yiddish Public Theater.
She was widowed, and left a son and his family after her death on May 18, 2002 at the age of 86.
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