GOLDENBURG, SAMUEL

GOLDENBURG, SAMUEL (Sholem Goldstein; 1886–1945), Yiddish actor. Son of a lumber merchant in Russia, Goldenburg joined a Yiddish company and at 20 toured with Sigmund Feinman in Europe. In 1917 he acted with Thomashefsky in New York, but later joined Maurice Schwartz's Jewish Art Theater, playing the lead in L. Feuchtwanger's Jew Suess and I.I. Singer's Di Brider Ashkenazi (The Brothers Ashkenazi, 1936). With celia adler he did a 32-week season at the Amphion   Theater, Brooklyn, in a repertory of 20 plays, among which were The Dybbuk and Camille (1925–26).