As Men Farzikht - Aaron Lebedeff

Aaron Lebedeff - the Maurice Chevalier of the Yiddish stage - was one of the top song-and-dance men of the Yiddish theater. He was born in White Russia and moved to New York in 1920. A star of the Second Avenue theater district for 16 straight seasons, his exuberant delivery of this sort of material is considered to be without peer. Ever adorned in a straw hat and impeccably tailored clothing, the dapper Lebedeff had a youthful appearance that lasted well into his 60s. He penned many of his own songs both in English and Yiddish. His Yiddish lyrics were so idiomatic that one reviewer said they "virtually defied translation. . . with a humor that is difficult to render into English." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.