{{Short description|Late 19th century Yiddish theatre performer}} '''Margeretta Schwartz''' was one of the first distinguished female performers in [[Yiddish theater]]. She and her sister [[Annetta Schwartz|Annetta]] shared ''[[prima donna]]'' duties in [[Abraham Goldfaden]]'s troupe in [[Romania]] beginning in 1877. [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Jacob Adler]] described the sisters as "absolutely respectable" women with classical training as singers. He also writes that when they performed in [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]] in the late 1870s, they had [[Paris]] dresses of a quality that had never been seen in that city.
==References== * [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Adler, Jacob]], ''A Life on the Stage: A Memoir'', translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, {{ISBN|0-679-41351-0}}, 69, 113.
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