{"id":1401,"date":"2018-07-05T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:58:16","slug":"zylbercweigs-leksikon-and-selfridges-rump-steak-in-memoriam-harry-ariel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/zylbercweigs-leksikon-and-selfridges-rump-steak-in-memoriam-harry-ariel\/","title":{"rendered":"Zylbercweig\u2019s Leksikon and Selfridges\u2019 Rump Steak: In Memoriam Harry Ariel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had heard so much about Harry Ariel, but there came a time when I began to wonder if he was a flesh-and-blood Yiddish actor or an elaborate theatrical joke. I had made two visits to the tiny flat in Whitechapel that he shared with his friend Bernard Mendelovitch<\/a>, but on both occasions, Ariel was nowhere to be seen. His absence was noted matter-of-factly by Mendelovitch: \u201cYou might get to meet Harry,\u201d he told me, \u201cbut don\u2019t be surprised if you don\u2019t.\u201d This only deepened the air of mystery, as though Ariel had a sideline that entailed unpredictable absences\u2014an emergency doctor perhaps, or a master criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the summer of 1985. I was a young museum curator, curious about the history of Yiddish theatre in London. Mendelovitch was a retired Yiddish actor who had become my volunteer consultant and guide. I knew little about my chosen subject, but I had read enough to know that Ariel was a key witness, a living link between the Yiddish stage of pre-war Poland and post-war London. As I got to know Bernard better, he began to invite me round to their tiny council flat behind the London Hospital\u2014through the backstreets, into a foul-smelling stairwell, up two flights of concrete stairs, then into an immaculate apartment where every available storage space was stuffed full of programs, stage photos and handwritten play scripts. But where was Harry? Gradually, the mystery evaporated. Ariel, it turned out, was pathologically shy and had stepped out of the flat to avoid meeting me.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Harry Ariel (right) and Bernard Mendelovitch (left) on the train en route to a show at the Oxford Yiddish Institute, circa 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Over time, Ariel\u2019s shyness lessened, the invitations became more regular, and my friendship with both men deepened. I quickly grew to love my visits to \u201cPhilpot Strasse\u201d\u2014Bernard\u2019s wry nickname for their narrow street, investing this dingy East End thoroughfare with a Noir-like Weimar glamor. Harry was the cook, typically greeting me wearing a large striped apron. He would retire to the pocket-sized kitchen to grill rump steak which he bought from Selfridges\u2019 Food Hall on bus trips to the West End. The butter-soft meat would be served with green peas and Polish-style kasha<\/a>. After dinner, we would sit and talk. Bernard\u2019s oratory was well-honed; he had a fund of anecdotes about his own stage career as well as an encyclopedic knowledge of Yiddish theatre history. Harry was a much more reluctant raconteur, but his own story was even richer, and much darker.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Harry Ariel in costume as a child actor, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

By the time I got to know Ariel, he was in his early seventies, struggling with poor health, but always with a shy smile on his face. After a life marked by poverty, tragedy, dislocation, and unimaginable privation, his modest lifestyle in Whitechapel\u2019s back streets offered plenty of reasons to be cheerful. Selfridges\u2019 steak was his one luxury, and those shopping trips to the city center seemed to symbolize the security and freedom that England had offered the young refugee actor. As for the occasional Yiddish theatre bookings that still came in from synagogue groups or cultural societies, these provoked bittersweet feelings. Yes, the show would go on, but the long gaps between bookings were a reminder that the vibrant theatrical culture both men had known in its heyday was now visibly on life support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry had been born in Odessa in 1915 while his parents were touring with Misha Fishzon\u2019s traveling Yiddish operetta company. As I write this, I think of his heavily pregnant mother bumping over country roads in horse-drawn carts across southern Russia, before giving birth in a strange city.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ariel and his father, circa 1916\u20131917.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Odessa was a long way from the Ariels\u2019 hometown of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, the industrial city that had mushroomed in the nineteenth century to become Poland\u2019s economic powerhouse. Harry\u2019s paternal grandfather Mendel was the proprietor of Heymishe mitogn<\/em> (Home Cooking), a small Jewish restaurant where \u0141\u00f3d\u017a\u2019s Yiddish theatre community came to eat and gossip. His mother\u2019s father was a weaver, part of the large Jewish proletariat that gave the city much of its defiant, flinty character. I once asked Harry about his family, and his answer memorialized an entire theatrical dynasty:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father<\/em>\u2019s name was Khayim Duvid Ariel, but on stage he was Duvid Ariel. Why? Because it was easier\u2014not so many letters on the poster! My mother<\/em>\u2019s name was Rukhl Ariel. My father<\/em>\u2019s eldest sister Manya was a Yiddish actress who had lived in Russia from before the revolution. Father<\/em>\u2019s other sisters I knew well: my aunt Sonia was a very famous Yiddish actress; she lived very near to us in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and her daughter Raya became an actress later on as a teenager. Aunt Beyla was the youngest and is still alive in Argentina, and still appears in Spanish films and in concert on the Yiddish stage. She is almost 90 now. Then there was Ruzhe Ariel, a wonderful character actress, very funny; her husband was Hokhberg, a famous Yiddish theatre conductor-composer who was often engaged to perform in Warsaw.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ariel home was a redbrick tenement block at 24 D\u0142<\/strong>uga Street in a rough neigborhood. Kaminski, the kosher butcher who owned the block, sold meat from his shop on the ground floor. As you went higher, the tenants got poorer, until you came to the Ariel apartment \u2014 a single room with an attic window under the roof. In time, Ariel\u2019s father became bed-ridden due to chronic arthritis, and his mother was the sole breadwinner. She had retired from the stage and become the props mistress, so in addition to three pull-out beds, a wardrobe, and a small stove for heating and cooking, the apartment was filled with boxes of stage props\u2014imitation guns, candlesticks, and telephones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry was a precociously gifted child actor, whose career took off in the mid-1930s, when he worked with many of the greatest names of the Yiddish stage in Poland. A stellar cast of local actors and visiting guest stars, they included Moyshe Lipman<\/a>, Leo Fuchs<\/a>, Lola Yakubovitch, Peysakh Burshteyn, Lillian Lux<\/a>, Jack Rechzeit<\/a>, Benzion Witler<\/a>, Khayim Sandler<\/a>, Shloyme Prizament<\/a>, and Gizi Haydn. In the summer of 1939, Benzion Witler invited him to join his company in London as the \u201cjuvenile light comedian.\u201d Ariel was overjoyed and applied for a visa and his first ever Polish passport. On the morning of September 2, 1939, he was about to leave his building to go to the passport office when he heard a commotion on the stairs. People were crying, shouting and screaming. \u201cWhat is it?\u201d he asked. \u201cWar!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final page from Harry Ariel\u2019s scrapbook of his years in Vegscheid Lager DP Camp in Linz, Austria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Photos from Harry Ariel\u2019s scrapbook of his years in Vegscheid Lager DP Camp in Linz, Austria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ariel fled east just in time to escape the Nazi occupation of Poland. At first he joined Ida Kaminska<\/a>\u2019s Yiddish theatre company in Bia\u0142ystok, part of the brief flowering of Yiddish culture in the newly-occupied Soviet borderlands. Then he spent several years as a prisoner of the Soviets, digging peat in a labor camp, a harrowing ordeal that left permanent physical scars. He returned to Poland after the war to discover that he was the sole survivor of his entire extended family. For Ariel, as for many other Polish survivors, the displaced persons\u2019 (DP) camps of central Europe became a sort of temporary home. In Harry\u2019s case, Wegscheid Lager DP Camp<\/a> in Austria reunited him with a handful of his pre-war theatre colleagues. He reconstructed entire plays and sketches from memory for the scratch troupe, a company of survivors entertaining their own kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1948, he came to London together with Isaac and Dora Krelman, reviving the fortunes of the Yiddish theatre company at the Grand Palais theatre<\/a> on Commercial Road. Harry\u2019s all-round theatrical genius as actor, director, lyricist, playwright, and scenic artist (he was an accomplished amateur painter) made him the inspirational leader of the company in the 1950s and 1960s. By the time I came to know him, his cupboards contained dozens of his handwritten play scripts, notebooks with hundreds of song lyrics, and numerous older Yiddish play scripts from pre-war Poland, marked up with directions in his own hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all his London Yiddish theatre colleagues, Harry had been forced to earn his living in the \u201ccivilian world\u201d when the Grand Palais closed in 1970. But in his case, a financial lifeline had come from an unexpected source. The German government undertook an extensive program of reparations after the war as atonement for Nazi crimes. Financial payments were made to Jewish welfare organizations and cultural projects, but also to individual survivors and others who could prove that their lives and livelihoods had suffered as a result of the war.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ariel on stage at the Grand Palais, London, against a backdrop he painted, circa 1965.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Ariel\u2019s father, Khayim Duvid Ariel, circa 1912.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rokhl (Ruzhe) Ariel, Ariel\u2019s mother, in costume in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, circa 1915.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Ariel and his mother in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, circa 1928.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Ariel (front row, far right) with Izaak Krelman (front row, center) and company, 1940s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In a pre-Internet age, with Poland firmly behind the Iron Curtain, and most material evidence of prewar Jewish life obliterated, finding this proof was no easy matter. At this point Zalmen Zylbercweig<\/a>\u2019s Leksikon fun yidishn teater<\/a><\/em><\/a> (Encyclopedia of the Yiddish Theatre)<\/em> intervened in Harry\u2019s life like a theatrical deus ex machina<\/em>. His father\u2019s biographical entry, from the first volume of the Leksikon<\/em> (Warsaw, 1931) concludes with the sentence: \u201cZayn zun, Hari, shpilt kinder-roln\u201d<\/em> (His son Harry plays child parts). It was an incontrovertible piece of evidence, showing that Harry\u2019s theatrical career was thriving well before the war, and he included it in the dossier he submitted for his reparations claim.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A page from Volume 1 of Zylbercweig\u2019s Leksikon fun yidishn teater <\/em>featuring Harry\u2019s parents, Khayim Dovid and Rokhl Ariel, as well as his aunt, Sonia. Harry is mentioned in his father\u2019s biography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So here is yet another remarkable achievement of Zylbercweig\u2019s monumental sourcebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayenu\u2014<\/em>it would have been sufficient, as Jews repeat in the Passover song thanking God for everything he has done for the Jewish people\u2014if the Leksikon<\/em> was just an indispensable resource for later generations. Not just for the small community of Yiddish theatre scholars, but also librarians and archivists. And not just them, but today\u2019s actors and producers who spin new theatrical gold out of the Leksikon<\/em>\u2019s base metal\u2014its exhaustive lists of long-forgotten plays, production histories, and contemporaneous reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayenu\u2014<\/em>it would also have been sufficient\u2014if it was just a source of pride and validation to the hundreds of Yiddish stage personalities mentioned in its pages. For these \u201cwandering stars,\u201d so often belittled and marginalized within their own community, the Leksikon<\/em> represented a towering monument to their professional achievements, a collective memorial that would endure long after they were gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in Ariel\u2019s case, Zylbercweig\u2019s meticulous scholarship and eye for relevant anecdotal detail literally put food on his plate. Without the Leksikon<\/em>, Harry was convinced that he would never have received his German government reparations pension. And without that financial lifeline, the little flat on Philpot Street would never have filled regularly with the welcoming aroma of Selfridges\u2019 rump steak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This article is part of a series celebrating the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project\u2019s publication of volume seven of Zalmen Zylbercweig\u2019s Leksikon fun yidishn teater<\/a><\/em><\/a>\u2014the final volume of this monumental publication. The other related entries are found My Zylbercweig<\/a> and Zalmen Zylbercweig, Shnorer-historian of the Yiddish Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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