Chana Levin
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L. was born on 5 May
1894 in Biala Podlaska, Poland. Her father was a
tailor. As a child of one-and-a-half years, she went
with her family over to Warsaw, where she studied in
a folkshul and learned Yiddish with a rabbi.
In her early youth she became a worker with a straw
peddler.
At twelve years she
joined Feinstein's Yiddish children's troupe, where
she debuted as "Khasya di yesoyme (Chasia the
Orphan)" and she remained there to act for two
years. After a short break she joined in with
Zhitomirsky's troupe, with whom she toured for two
years across Russia, then she acted with small
provincial troupes, later with Sabsey in Odessa and
with Libert-Zaslavsky across Russia.
In 1917 she came to
Poland together with her husband, the actor Chaim
Sandler, and traveled around across the Polish
province, until she joined in 1922 Kaminski's
theatre in Warsaw. Soon thereafter she became
engaged to London to Joseph Kessler, |
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where she acted
for two seasons under the name Sandler, then six
months in South Africa, one year in Paris,
several months in Belgium, and Germany and again
back to Poland, where she acted for four years
in "Sambatyon," then again one season in
London's Pavilion Theatre (Director -- Zusman)
and after a short tour across Western Europe she
came back to Poland, where she acted in 1932 in
a members troupe in Warsaw's Skala Theatre and
then in Warsaw's Pavilion Theatre (Director --
Chaim Sandler).
Specialty:
Character roles.
L.'s daughter,
Reyzl Sandler, acts on the Yiddish stage.
M. E.
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Chana
Sandler -- Vi azoy biz oykh gekumen tsu der
bine, "Di post", London, 13 January 1928, "Teat'tst",
Warsaw, 5, 1929.
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