baleboste

For instance, Jacob Mestel (1884 – 1958) mentions that Pepi Litmann, and not her husband, was actually the “baleboste,” in other words the director of their troupe, and he also writes that Pepi Litmann was the first to engage female singers in keeping with the local language demands of the respective performance locations, such as a Hungarian singer in Hungary, etc.

Yiddish Theater in Vienna. 2009

Few writers seek to replicate their mother’s Jewishness, whether that appears in the form of a competent baleboste (household manager) or a dedicated radical.

Assimilation in the United States: Twentieth Century. 2009

At one point, during Valli’s first date with Mary (Jennifer Naimo), the baleboste who becomes his first wife, she asks why he spells his invented Italian surname with a “y” and not an “i.”

November 2005 2005