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Papp was born as Joseph Papirofsky in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Yetta (née Miritch), a seamstress, and Samuel Papirofsky, a trunkmaker. [4] His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.
May 23, 2022 · Born Yussel Papirofsky on June 22nd to Shmuel and Yetta Papirofsky in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Joe Papp’s mother left Kovno, Lithuania as a fifteen year-old orphan. His father left Kielce, Poland...
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His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. (The 2010 documentary film Joe Papp in Five Acts says his mother was a Lithuanian Jew, and his father a Polish Jew.) He was a high school student of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence.
- "Joseph Papirofsky"
- June 22, 1921
Jun 3, 2022 · The child of poor Jewish immigrants, Papp, nee Papirofsky, was a street-smart Brooklyn scrapper as ashamed of his parents’ poverty as he was consumed by ambition for something more.
Sep 18, 2023 · Gail Merrifield Papp was born in San Francisco into a family with a deep theater lineage. After joining Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival in 1965, she became Director of New Works Development for the Public Theater and was responsible for some of its most celebrated productions.
His parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was a high school student of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence. Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 with the aim of making Shakespeare's works accessible to the public.
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Jan 1, 1992 · Joseph Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater, died on Oct. 31, 1991. He was 70. Joseph Papp was the most powerful and influential man in the American theatre, dominating his world through the force of his own dazzling paradoxical personality.
