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Actress ANNA HELD 1907 Old Coloured Postcard to Ireland

Series No: 477
Faults: Corner edge wear & minor creases
Addressed to: Cork, Ireland
Condition: Used
Background: Anna Held (March 8, 1872 - August 12, 1918) was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. Born Helene Anna Held in Warsaw, Poland, Held was the daughter of a Jewish glove maker, Shimmle (aka Maurice) Held, and his French-Jewish wife, Yvonne Pierre. Sources indicate various birth dates: 1865 the earliest, 1873 the latest. In 1881, anti-semitic pogroms forced the family to flee to Paris, France. When her father's glovemaking business failed, he found work as a janitor, while her mother operated a kosher restaurant. Held began working in the garment industry, then found work as a singer in Jewish theatres in Paris and, later, after her father's death, London, where her roles included the title role in a production by Jacob Adler of Abraham Goldfaden's Shulamith; she was also in Goldfaden's ill-fated Paris troupe, whose cashier stole their money before they ever played publicly.

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