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The song "Rumania, Rumania" () by Aaron Lebedeff celebrates the exuberant life of Romanian Jews before the Shoah, full of good food.!
Aaron Lebedeff
Yiddish theatre actor
Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960)[1] was a Yiddish theatre star, born in Gomel, Belarus.
Life and career
In childhood he sang for the Hazzan, Borekh David. Having no interest in education, he was sent to learn a trade, but soon he ran away and began to play small roles in a Russian theaters in Bobruysk, Minsk and other towns.
With Abe Ellstein and his orchestra Ekh! - Rumania, Rumania, Rumania, Rumania, Rumania, Rumania, Rumania - di amolige Rumania.
When the Russian troupe fell apart, he went back to Homel, taking part in amateur theatre and opening a dance club. When Leyzer Bernshtein's troupe arrived, he wheedled a place in it.[2]
He was officially a chorister, unofficially a roadie/stage hand (pekl-treger).
He dressed the actors and was a prompter. He finally debuted in Der Pipkiner rav and became the character actor he would remain, playing in different wandering theatre troupes across Russia. He was hired in Warsaw and became popular there as Der Litvisher Komiker (The Litvak comic).
In 1912–13, he played in Łódź with Zandberg, th