Khayele Grober

Khayele Grober (; ; also transliterated as Chayele; February 16, 1898 – December 10, 1978) was a Polish-Israeli theatre actor and playwright.

Early life She was born on February 16, 1898 into a Jewish family in Białystok, which was then a part of the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Her father was a successful merchant, and Khayele graduated from a Russian high school before receiving private tuition in Yiddish and Hebrew. She spent the First World War in Moscow, where she trained as an actor at the Habima studio.

She was the author of several books and one stage play. One of her books was a memoir of her ten years at Habima in Moscow, parts of which were published in Yiddish magazines such as Di idishe tsaytung (The Jewish newspaper) in Buenos Aires, Keneder odler or Keneder Adler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal, and Di shtime (The voice) in Mexico.

Khayele Grober settled in Israel in 1966, and died in Haifa twelve years later on December 10, 1978.

Literary works Tsu der groyser velt (To the great world) (Buenos Aires, 1952), 209 pp - a depiction of Jewish everyday life Af fridlekhe erd (On peaceful soil) - stage play