Person

Arṣišewsqa, Ṭeʿa

1890–1962

Sixty years ago today, the Yiddish playwright, actress, theatre company founder, and salonnière Tea Arciszewska (c. 1890 – 1962) died in Paris. Although she is now almost completely forgotten, Arciszewska was a mesmerizing and unforgettable figure in the Warsaw Yiddish culture scene, on account of her many Yiddish theatre achievements and her participation in Yiddish literary circles, as well as for her life as a bohemian ... Arcizewska was born around 1890 to the Lipski family, illustrious Ger Hasidim, in a shtetl called Mława in Congress Poland ... After surviving World War II, Arciszewska moved to Paris and finished her play Miryeml ...