Boaz Young

First row: Lachman, Wolkenstain, Winkler, Bankoff; second row: A. Chelif, A. Oberberg, Clara Young, Boaz Youngwitz, Ilia Trilling Boaz Yungvits (Youngwitz), Bernard Young (born 1870 in Nowy Dwór, Poland) was a Polish actor.

Biography Young learned Russian, Polish, and German in childhood after studying and learning Hebrew with the Yanover Rav. 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)

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. In the 1910s he played in People's Theater, the Thalia theater, Kessler's Lyric Theater in Brooklyn and in 1911 starred with his wife in H. Meyzel's piece Di Bigamists a.k.a. Zayn Vayb's Man (His wife's lover).

Filmography The Youth of Russia (1934 documentary) Tevya (1939)