Background
After her father"s death the family went to America, where she soon joined the Tantsman company and went to Boston, there to Zolotarevski"s troup in Montreal, thence to Toronto and to Morris Finkel"s theater in Philadelphia.
After her father"s death the family went to America, where she soon joined the Tantsman company and went to Boston, there to Zolotarevski"s troup in Montreal, thence to Toronto and to Morris Finkel"s theater in Philadelphia.
Born to parents who loved the stage she spent her early years in a home that housed rehearsals of traveling Yiddish theater troupes. In 1903 she played in the People"s Music Hall where she made a name with songs like Di dame fun Broadvey and Libe mayne. Her success encouraged the couple to return to Warsaw, where in 1912 she starred in Anshel Shor and Joseph Rumshinsky"s Dos meydl fun der vest (Di Amerikanerin) and later Khantshe in Amerike and Alma, vu voynstu? (Alma, where do you live?) and the German operetta Puptshik.
Her popularity grew when she starred in her husband"s Jeykele the bluffer In 1922 she starred in the premiere of Tomashevsky"s Di grine kuzine.
In 1923, at the Prospect Theater, she played the title role in Der yeshiva bokher (The schoolboy), soon after traveling in Poland and the Soviet Union for several years, then Argentina and Brazil in 1928, then back to Lodz, Warsaw, Riga and Vilna in the 1930s, then Paris, Berlin, and London, Belgium, Mexico and Cuba. Subsequently Clara returned alone to the Soviet Union, became a Soviet citizen, and spent the rest of her life there.
Ida Kaminska, the Polish born actress wrote of meeting up with Young in 1941 when all were temporarily stuck in Tashkent. Clara died in Moscow in 1952.