Reizl Bozyk

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Reizl Bozyk born 13 May 1914 Poland 30 September 1993 New York New York USA also known as Rose Bozyk was a Polishborn American actress of the Yiddish theatre Her only claim to mainstream fame was her sole film role in which she played the interfering grandmother of Amy Irving in Joan Micklin Silvers film Crossing Delancey 1988 She had been an enduring star of the Yiddish stage in New York and earlier in Poland and Argentina appearing in hundreds of productions often as a comedian and later as the familiar mother or motherinlaw character who often stole the show She began acting in the Yiddish theater in Poland at the age of 5 or 6 performing first with her parents and then with Max Bozyk whom she later married Max and Reizl Bozyk fled the Nazis in 1939 traveling first to Argentina and in 1941 to New York City For three decades they were inseparable on the Yiddish stage starring in one play or revue after another In an interview when Crossing Delancey opened Bozyk joked that the 37 years spent with her husband had been like 74 because theyd spent their entire days and nights together In 1970 after a performance at New Yorks Town Hall her husband collapsed and died In 1989 she essayed her first stage role in English appearing in the comedy Social Security at the Forum Theater in Metuchen New Jersey The following year she recreated her Crossing Delancey role on stage Description above from the Wikipedia article Reizl Bozyk licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia