Abraham Goldfaden, Russian actor, playwright, and author (born 1840)

Abraham Goldfaden

Russian-born Jewish poet and playwright (1840–1908)

Abraham Goldfaden, also known as Avram Goldfaden, was a Russian-born Jewish poet, playwright, stage director and actor in Yiddish and Hebrew languages and author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of modern Jewish theatre.