Tenen Holtz

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

Volin - Russia

Born

2/17/1887

Age

138

Credit(s)

44

Biography

Elihu "Elye" Tenenholtz was born in the Russian hamlet of Azran, near the city of Rovne, in 1887 and came to the US at the age of ten. His first appearance in amateur Yiddish theatricals occurred in 1903, in staged readings of the works of Yiddish author Sholom Aleichem, the first person to do that. He augmented his theater appearances by writing f ...Show More