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Leksikon fun yidishn teater
Leksikon fun yidishn teater (לעקסיקאן פון יידישן טעאטער Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre or Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre) is a Yiddish language reference encyclopedia compiled by Zalmen Zylbercweig, assisted by Jacob Mestel on two volumes.
The six-volume 3,066 page work contains biographies of more than 3,000 individuals, as well as articles on theatre troupes and plays. The compiler published the first volumes in New York and Warsaw before World War II. Later volumes were published in New York and Mexico City from 1959 to 1969
. He worked in Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House with director Boris Thomashevsky; in 1921-22 he was director and composer at Clara Young's Liberty Theater. He composed for "Di Yidishe Shikse" by Anshl Shor (1927) and "A nakht fun libe (A Night of Love)" by Israel Rosenberg. An exhaustive list of his many works can be found in the "Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater".
In 1932 he wrote the melody for the popular song "Bay mir bistu sheyn" on the lyrics