Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman

Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman (, c. 1855 – c. 1938), who often published under the pen name Hazman , was a Romanian Jewish actor, songwriter, journalist, and educator. In addition to working as an actor in the Yiddish theatre in Romania and in the United States, he wrote and published a large number of Yiddish theatre songs which were widely performed in the late nineteenth century, making him one of the earliest popular songwriters in the genre. His father had been a Hazzan but died when Helman was young. He played a few seasons in New York City and Philadelphia, including at the Romanian Opera House with Jacob Adler and at Boris Thomashefsky's theater. He also wrote for and edited a number of newspapers and magazines: , , , and , Helman's own literary magazine which he published from 1903 onwards.