Aaron Lebedeff scored an immediate personal success at Boris Tomashefsky's National Theatre after he arrived in NYC in 1920. Born in White Russia, he learned his craft in a local choir, a traveling Russian theater troupe, and Yiddish theatrical troupes. Lebedeff wrote many of his Yiddish and English lyrics himself. All of the songs breathe nostalgia and are evocative of the Russian-Romanian milieu and the immigrant world in New York.



