Vera Rozanka

[1][2] During her career, she shared the stage with many notables of the Yiddish Theatre world, including Aaron Lebedeff, Ben Bonus, Fraydele Oysher, Miriam Kressyn and Menasha Skulnik.

[3][4] She was born Shifra Viner (שפרה װינער) in Konotop, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine) on November 4, 1893.

[1] She became known for her act as the "yiddishe shikse", where she would sing Russian- or Ukrainian-language songs, or perform in skits with a Russian accent and broken English.

After World War II, she continued to act, appearing in plays produced by her husband at the Clinton Theatre alongside such actors as Aaron Lebedeff and Miriam Kressyn.

[18][19][20] As the Yiddish theatre declined in popularity, she and Israel also turned increasingly to Vaudeville performances and radio appearances, including a weekly program sponsored by Manischewitz.

[31][32][33][34] It seems to have folded by the early 1950s, and in 1954 she collaborated in a new effort funded by the Hebrew Actors' Union, where she co-directed the reopened Elsmere theatre with her husband.