# Annetta Schwartz

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19th-century Yiddish theater performer

**Annetta Schwartz** was one of the first distinguished female performers in [Yiddish theater](/source/Yiddish_theater).

She and her sister [Margaretta](/source/Margaretta_Schwartz) shared *[prima donna](/source/Prima_donna)* duties in [Abraham Goldfaden](/source/Abraham_Goldfaden)'s troupe in [Romania](/source/Romania) beginning in 1877. [Jacob Adler](/source/Jacob_Pavlovich_Adler) described her as "respectable" with classical training as singers.[1] He also writes that when they performed in [Odessa](/source/Odessa) (now in Ukraine) in the late 1870s, they had [Paris](/source/Paris) dresses of a quality that had never been seen in that city.

She eventually married actor and impresario [Moishe Finkel](/source/Moishe_Finkel),[2] and came with him to [New York City](/source/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](/source/Bessie_Thomashefsky), wife of [Boris Thomashefsky](/source/Boris_Thomashefsky).[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuint2021162_1-0)** [Quint 2021](#CITEREFQuint2021), p. 162.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuint202176,_160_2-0)** [Quint 2021](#CITEREFQuint2021), pp. 76, 160.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAdler199985–86_3-0)** [Adler 1999](#CITEREFAdler1999), pp. 85–86.

## Sources

- Adler, Jacob P. (1999). [*A Life on the Stage: A Memoir*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Life_on_the_Stage/kV4dAQAAIAAJ). Translated by Rosenfeld, Lulla. Knopf. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-679-41351-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-679-41351-6).

- Quint, Alyssa (12 March 2021). [*The Rise of the Modern Yiddish Theater*](https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rise_of_the_Modern_Yiddish_Theater/D4uFDwAAQBAJ). Indiana University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-253-03864-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-253-03864-7).

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