Millie Chissick
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Millie Chissick
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Millie Chissick was an actress in the Yiddish theatre of Europe. She was born Manya Fierstenfeld in Częstochowa, Poland, where her parents ran an inn that was often visited by travelling Yiddish actors. There she met actor Emanuel Chissick. They eloped and she joined his theatre company. In 1911, Franz Kafka saw Chissick perform in Prague in Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamis and Bar Kokhba. Kafka became infatuated with her, writing in his diary "she reminded me vaguely of hybrid beings like mermaids,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Chissick
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2023-08-10T01:31:19Z
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2024-09-02T11:42:20Z
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