Nellie Casman

Nellie Casman (1896–1984) was an American actress and singer in Yiddish theater. She was born in Proskurov, Russian Empire, and moved to the United States in the early 1900s. She lived in Philadelphia where her father was a hazzan. Casman showed such talent as an actress when a child, the actress Rose Rubin took her into a professional Yiddish theater, where she began to play child roles in 1910.