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Abraham Izaak Kamiński
Born in 1865 (1867?) to a poor Jewish family in Wola, a working-class district of Warsaw. He died during a guest performance in 1918 in Łomża. He was an actor and director, as well as the director of a Yiddish-language theater troupe; he was the husband of Ester Rachel Kamińska and the father of Ida and Józef.
He had a traditional religious education and knew several foreign languages, which he learned on his own. As a supporter of the Haskala movement, he organized a theater troupe in Warsaw in approximately 1887 that also traveled to perform in the provinces. Several years later, in 1893, he founded a group called "The Theater of German Opera, Plays and Comedies". When the censorship’s ban on using Yiddish on the stage was lifted, that group went on tour in Russia. There, Kamiński staged plays he had written himself, the most popular of which was Polski Żyd (Polish, Polish Jew) and Yidishe aktion oyf der rayze (Yiddish, The Peregrinations of Jewish Actors), as well as plays by other authors, often in his own translations (The Lower Depths by M. Gorky; The Imaginary Invalid by J. B. Molière; and The Robbers by F. Schiller).
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In 1908, Kamiński had very good actors in his group, thanks to which the troupe began to be known as the "Literarishe Trupe" (Yiddish, "Literary Group”). In 1913, he became the owner of a theater located in a renovated building that had previously housed the cyclorama on Dynasy Street, near Oboźna Street, in Warsaw. From then on, it was known as the Kamiński Theater (then the Kamiński Family Theater, or the Jewish Theater), which was the first permanent Jewish theater in the Kingdom of Poland. After his death, the Wilno Troupe formed from the group he had led. (aws)
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