Moishe Oysher ^People

Oysher was able to retrain his voice and began singing again in literary and dramatic clubs. He met actor Wolf Shumsky and traveled with him to Winnipeg, where he played Yiddish theater for three seasons. He was allowed into the Canadian Actors' Union in 1924 and played in the Montreal Yiddish theater under the direc- tion of Isidore Hollander. He may have gone back and forth between Canada and the United States during this time. In 1928 he was on Yiddish radio in Philadelphia, where his parents had moved, and that same year he was engaged at the Hopkins Theater in Brooklyn. The manager of the Hopkins theatre, Louis Weiss, was married to the female lead, Florence Weiss, she ended up leaving Louis for Oysher. The pair left for Newark, New Jersey to work at the Lyric Theater. In 1931 he was accepted into the New York Actors' Union and played in Anshel Schorr group, and lived in Philadelphia for a time. He then played with Boris Thomashevsky, then in 1932, he started his own compa- ny and traveled to Buenos Aires and across Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Oysher starred in three Yiddish films. In 1943 Oysher signed a contract with Fortune Gallo to perform several roles with the Chicago Opera Company anda fine career was fore-seen, but after a heart attack he had to abandon the idea.During the 1940s and 1950s he was one of the top Hazzans and his recordings continue to be appreciated due to hisrich, powerful voice and creative arrangements.