Lea Noemi

Lea Noemi, also known as Lea Eisenberg (1883–1973) was a Yiddish actress, who performed at the Yiddish Art Theater alongside Maurice Schwartz.[1]

Life

Lea Noemi was born on November 10, 1883.[2]

In the 1930s Noemi appeared in two Yiddish films made by Edgar G. Ulmer. She played the role of Gitl in Green Fields (1936), directed by Ulmer with Jacob Ben-Ami, and the role of Mariashe in The Singing Blacksmith (1938), directed by Ulmer alone.[3]

Noemi played the title role in a New York stage production of Mirele Efros.[4] Her New York Times obituarist claimed that she also reprised this role in Josef Berne's' 1939 film adaptation of Mirele Efros,[1] though other sources suggest that Berta Gersten took the title role in the film.[5]

In the 1950s Noemi acted in Deeds and Dreams, an Israeli comedy, in a performance at the New York Jewish Community Center sponsored by the Workmen's Circle.[6]

Noemi married the sculptor Abraham Eisenberg (died 1959). She died on November 6, 1973, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York City.[1]

Filmography

• Green Fields / Grine Felder). 1936.[3]
• The Singing Blacksmith / Yankel der Schmid. 1938.[3]

References

1. "Lea Noemi". The New York Times. November 8, 1973. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
2. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer, eds. (2006). "Noemi, Lea". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Retrieved 11 November 2023 – via Encyclopedia.com.
3. Isenberg, Noah William (2014). Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins. University of California Press. pp. 278–9. ISBN 9780520235779.
4. "Mirele Efros: drame in 4 aḳṭn (5 bilder)". New York Public Library. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
5. "Mirele Efros". National Center for Jewish Film. jewishfilm.org. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
6. Greenspoon, Leonard Jay, ed. (1998). Yiddish Language & Culture Then & Now. Creighton University Press. p. 151.