1904 JEWISH The UNITED RECORD CO David KESSLER Keppler Kaddish Jeshivo Bochur 78

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No discographical information found of this rare early JEWISH record label

 The UNITED RECORD CO 10" one sided record

THIS LABEL (probably of New York) (with a David's Star and a seraphim face in the middle) has NOTHING to do with the oversized hole records by the UNITED RECORD CO of Chicago

Given the early and crude shape, the sunken label, it could be pressed by one of the early record companies like Hawthorn and Sheble or Imperial Leeds

David KESSLER (my friend transcribes it as: Keppler ) and Grand Theater Choir

Kaddish Jeshivo Bochur.

Sung by NY Jewish Theater actor David KESSLER (??) announced with Harmonium

The identification as David Kessler is NOT CONFIRMED by independent sources.

Here is what the label says

> > > United Record Co 1033 Kaddish (fun die Jeshivo Bochur) sung by Herr
> > David Keppler and Grand Theater Choir/ Mourner's Prayer, from the Yeshiva Student

 10"78 rpm Record

Condition: Good Plus, light greying, etched groove at start causes skip, rubbed and some scratches .

Plays VG rel quiet with light fuzzy distortions throughout.

David Kessler (1860 – 1920) was a prominent actor in the first great era of Yiddish theater. As a star Yiddish dramatic performer in New York City, he was the first leading man in Yiddish theater to dispense with incidental music.
Born and raised in Chi?in?u (then part of Imperial Russia, now the capital of independent Moldova), as an adolescent he improvised chaotic amateur plays in the stable of his father's inn, using fragments of what he had seen in the performances of Broder singers. A medical student named Geller apparently wrote him a more structured play, Mechtze the Matchmaker, which he and his friends put on.
[edit]Early career

At 16, he tried out for Israel Rosenberg's theater troupe when they passed through town for a month. He was offered a position as an extra, but his father forbid him to go on the road. Three years later he joined a different small travelling troupe, and spent three years travelling through Europe with that troupe, first in Russia and then in Romania. In 1886, he came to the United States.
In one of the first Yiddish-language productions of Shakespeare, he played the title role in Othello, opposite Jacob Adler's Iago. He was responsible for bringing Bertha Kalich to America.
[edit]American Yiddish Theatre

He emigrated to American in 1886 and began his career here. There he acted under Jacob Adler in Jacob Gordin's first play "Siberia" in 1891. He appeared in other Gordin plays, "God, Man, and Devil". Others of his outstanding roles were in Sholem Asch's "God of Vengeance", David Pinski's "Yankel the Smith", and Leon Kobrin's "Yankel Boile".
He appeared in all the principal "Lower East Side" theatres in the Yiddish Theater District: the Thalia Theatre; the People's Theatre; and the Windsor Theatre.[1]
In 1899 he was awarded the Thalia Theatre in a divorce settlement from his wife Jennie.[2] Kessler's Thalia Theatre was located at 46-48 Bowery between Bayard and Canal Streets, across the street from the Windsor Theatre in Manhattan.[3] He was listed as being the Lessee and Manager; Sigmund Mogulesko is the Regisseur and B. Young is the theatre manager.
In 1913 he established the David Kessler Theater, which ranked equally with Adler's and Thomashefsky's theaters, and produced many plays by the leading Yiddish writers.[4]
In 1918 he starred in 'Mish Mash' with Nellie Casman at Edelstein's People's Theater.[5]
The New York Times called him, "One of the leading Yiddish actors in the United States . . ."[1]
He was the manager of Kessler's Second Avenue Theatre.[1]
His acting roles were many and varied.
He was married to Rachel (nee Wilner) Kessler. She owned the "Wilner Full Dress Parlor" on the Lower East Side.
[edit]Death

He became ill while on stage at the Lyric Theatre in Brooklyn, New York during his performance of Jacob Gordin's dramatization of Tolstoy's "The Kreutzer Sonata". He died on May 14, 1920 in Beth Israel Hospital from complications following an operation. He is buried in Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York along with his wife Rachel Kessler.

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