Kalman Juvelier

[1][2][3][4][5] After emigrating to the United States in 1900, he became a key figure in the Yiddish theatre in New York, working with such notables as Boris Thomashefsky, David Kessler, Bertha Kalich and Jacob P. Adler and was director of the Hebrew Actor's Union as well as the Jewish Theatrical Alliance.

[3][1] By his teen years, Juvelier had left Lemberg and began to travel as an itinerant folk singer.

[14] Kalman soon took over direction of the troupe and they spent the next two decades touring, performing operettas and plays by Avram Goldfaden, Jacob Gordin, Joseph Lateiner and others in Bukovina, Galicia, the Romania, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire.

[22] Goldfaden found out and attempted to sue Juvelier, but lost because the play was based on a Biblical story.

[3][6][10] Among those who accompanied him for the journey were his entire family, and so many leading members of his troupe that it caused complaints from the Jewish actor's union in New York.

[2][12] In fact, he had been recruited to be a star at the Windsor Theatre, on behalf of his old troupe-leader Professor Horowitz; he ended up working there for five years.

His earliest may have been in 1904 when he made a number of recordings for the short-lived United Hebrew Disc and Cylinder Company, including some with Regina Prager.

[8] His troupe with Yiddish theatre actress Regina Prager (the Prager-Juvelier Operetta Company), which had been founded sometime before 1907, embarked on a number of successful tours around the United States during the 1910s.