Career
He was an actor, stage manager, director and writer From 1917-1920 he played in Esther-Rukhl Kaminski"s troup. In 1921 he organized Dos baveglekhe dramatishe teater touring Poland and Galitsia.
Subsequently he toured with Di yunge bine (The young stage).
In 1926 he was hired to direct the cultural Yiddish theatre in KrakóWest He received the first state subsidy given in Poland to any Yiddish theater.
During the 1930s he was director for kleynkunst revi-teater in Kaunas. He lived since 1950 in Israel.
Jonas Turkow performed in the following movies as an actor:
Tkies khaf (1924)
Lamedvovnik (1925)
Huragan (1928)
Młody Las (1934)
Jonas Turkow directed:
In die poylishe velder (1929)
Jonas Turkow wrote:
Turkow, Jonas.
O levante do gueto de Varsovia / Jonas Turkow. Tradução, Ayala Ehrlich. – São Paulo: Federação Israelita do Estado de São Paulo, 1975 Mifaley Tarbut ve-Hinukh Tel Awiw 1969 Jonas Turkow
Jonas Turkow: In Kamf farn Lebn, Buenos Aires, 1949,
Jonas Turkow: Azoi iz es Geven, Buenos Aires, 1948,
Jonas Turkow:"Nokh der befrayung – zikhroynes", Buenos Aires 1959
Jonas Turkow: "Farloshene shtern", 1953
Jonas Turkow: "Teater un Konsertn in die Getos un Konstentratsye Lagern," in Yidisher Teater in Yirope…Poilen.
Nowy Jork, (1968).
Knight Publishing. Jonas Turkow ( Ionas Turkov): C"était ainsi. 1939-1943 la vie dans le ghetto de Varsovie.
Paris: Austral, 1995
Jonas Turkow: "This is How lieutenant Was…", published. By the Association of Polish Jews in Argentina, 1948 (529 pages).