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Bessie Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-American Yiddish theater actress and comedian. She was the wife and stage partner of Boris Thomashefsky, the most popular Yiddish leading actor of the era. Probably her most famous role was the title role of Oscar Wilde's Salomé at the People’s Theater in 1908. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)