{{Short description|19th-century Yiddish theater performer}} '''Annetta Schwartz''' was one of the first distinguished female performers in [[Yiddish theater]].
She and her sister [[Margaretta Schwartz|Margaretta]] shared ''[[prima donna]]'' duties in [[Abraham Goldfaden]]'s troupe in [[Romania]] beginning in 1877. [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Jacob Adler]] described her as "respectable" with classical training as singers.{{sfn|Quint|2021|p=162}} He also writes that when they performed in [[Odessa]] (now in Ukraine) in the late 1870s, they had [[Paris]] dresses of a quality that had never been seen in that city.
She eventually married actor and impresario [[Moishe Finkel]],{{sfn|Quint|2021|pp=76,160}} and came with him to [[New York City]] in 1886. She eventually divorced him and went back to Europe. Lulla Rosenfeld writes that we know little about her outside of the "bitter reminiscences" of rival ''prima donna'' [[Bessie Thomashefsky]], wife of [[Boris Thomashefsky]].{{sfn|Adler|1999|pp=85–86}}
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==Sources== * {{cite book |last1=Adler |first1=Jacob P. |translator-last=Rosenfeld |translator-first=Lulla |title=A Life on the Stage: A Memoir |date=1999 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-679-41351-6 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Life_on_the_Stage/kV4dAQAAIAAJ |language=en}} * {{cite book |last1=Quint |first1=Alyssa |title=The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater |date=12 March 2021 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-03864-7 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rise_of_the_Modern_Yiddish_Theater/D4uFDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
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