Boaz Young

Boaz Yungvits (Youngwitz), aka Bernard Young (born 1870 in Nowy Dwór, Poland) was a Polish actor.

In 1887, he became a supporter of the Tantsman-Spivakovski troupe in the Eldorado Theater and then moved to London where he was devoted to the Yiddish theatre troupe (Adler, Gradner, Max Rosenthal, and Abba Schoengold)[1] In 1889 he emigrated to the United States and joined a dramatic club, where Kopl Sender had produced Abraham Goldfaden's Doktor Almasado in which Boaz played "Bartelo" and with which he traveled to play in the provinces.

In 1891 he played in Der yidisher kenig lir (The Jewish King Lear) then with Adler in the Roumania Opera House and in the Windsor Theater.

[1] The Youngs went to Europe, starring in Lemberg, Czernowitz, Iași, and Bucharest, then came back to America where Boaz helped create the Second Avenue Theater.

They then toured through Russia, particularly in Yekaterinoslav, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa and Kiev, returning to New York and Brooklyn's Liberty Theater to star again in his Jeykele (with new music by Sholom Secunda), Dos Holand Vaybkhen, and Berele Tremp by Israel Rosenberg.