Pauline Edelstein
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Pauline Edelstein (February 10, 1866 – September 27, 1942) was a Yiddish theatre actress.[1]
Born Pauline Finkelstein, in Iași, Romania on February 10, 1866, and died September 27, 1942, in Manhattan, New York. Her father was a "cutter" by profession.
Marriage
She was married to Joseph Edelstein, a Yiddish theatre owner, playwright and director. They had two children, Isidore Edelstein, who for a short time also acted in the Yiddish theatres, and Elias Edelstein, who worked with his father and later ran the Second Avenue Theater.
Early life
She learned in a "primary school" with her sister Amalia. Amalia married actor Zigmund Mogulesko. Through her affiliation with her sister she entered the chorus of Mugulesko-Goldfaden's troupes in Romania and Russia. In Russia she acted as Genendl in Shom'r's Der Katorzhnik and as Tamar in Joseph Lateiner's Di libe fun tzion.