Muni Seroff (January 8, 1895 - December 19, 1979) was a Jewish film and stage actor and singer (
baritone
A baritone is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the bass (voice type), bass and the tenor voice type, voice-types. It is the most common male voice. The term originates from the ...
) known for performing Russian and Jewish songs. He was born Chaim Leizerovich Zilberang (Ха́им Ле́йзерович Зильбера́нг), later known under the alias Munia Serebroff (Муня Серебров; archaic spelling: Серебровъ), and eventually accepted the alias Mini Seroff.
Biography
He was born in
Kishinev,
Russian Empire
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[Munia (Haim) Seroff (Zilberang, Serebroff) (1895-1979)]
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translated from Zalmen Zylbercweig
Zalmen Zylbercweig (Yiddish: זלמן זילבערצווייג ; Ozorkow, 1894-Los Angeles 1972) was a historian of Yiddish theater. He is best known as the author of the six-volume '' Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' (Lexicon or Encyclopedia of the ...
's ''Leksikon fun yidishn teater
''Leksikon fun yidishn teater'' ( ''Lexicon of Yiddish Theatre'' or ''Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre'') is a Yiddish language reference encyclopedia compiled by Zalmen Zylbercweig, assisted by Jacob Mestel on two volumes.
The six-volume 3,0 ...
'', p. 152
here
/ref> to a family of a Jewish merchant.
He was buried at the Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens, New York), Cedar Grove Cemetery, and occupies the vast majority of the grou ...
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Notes
References
External links
*https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14313916/muni-serebroff
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1895 births
1979 deaths
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