"Indefatigable Yiddish theater queen Zypora Spaisman, 85, who kept New
York's famed Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre alive for 42 years and today
heads the competing Yiddish Public Theater, can't recall how many
babies she's delivered. She started as a midwife back in her native
Poland, a sideline she kept up during her early acting career on New
York's Lower East Side." (from NY Post 1-2-2001-- her birthday,
ironically).
