Lola Folman
Lola Folman (1912–1979) was a Polish Jewish singer and composer popular in Poland in the 1930s.[1] Folman was a folk singer. She was often accompanied by pianist-improviser Max Fishman,[2][3] was soloist with the Moshe Shneur Choir in Warsaw and later a composer and performer in kleynkunst and revi-teater.[4] Folman married lyricist Yitskhok Perlov (who wrote the words to her famous Dos Baytshl Kreln).[1] Folman was also an actress and singer with the very successful traveling Melokhishe Yidishe Miniatur-Teater, created in Bialistock in 1939 by Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher, directed by Moishe Broderzon, music director Shuel Berezovski, with actors Vladislav Godik (Willy Godnick), Yule Bregman, Shmuel Goldshteyn, Khile Shiper, Mina Bern, Yehude Berg, Hele Luksenburg, Shimon Osovitski, Mark Moravski, Mordkhe Rotsheyn, Felix Fibikh, Ber Shvartshtein, and Moyshe Nudelman. The troupe played in Odessa, from which it was evacuated to Kharkov and from there to Asia. It played for a short time in Ashkhabad and then ceased to exist.)[5]
Folman gave performances in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1948.[7] She emigrated to New York and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Queens, NY in 1979.[8] See also
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