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Edward Woolf

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death: March 14, 1882 (78)
New York, New York, New York, United States
Place of Burial: New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Benjamin Woolf and Phoebe Woolf
Husband of Sarah Woolf
Father of Benjamin Edward Woolf; Michael Angelo Woolf; Hannah Woolf; Solomon Israel Woolf; Eliza Henius and 5 others
Brother of Eve Harris; Isaac Woolf; Jane Flatau; Matilda Boxell; Sophia Woolf and 2 others

Occupation: conductor, Teacher, orchestral leader, musician, novelist
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About Edward Woolf

biography

From page 559 of The Jewish Encyclopedia: Talmud - Zweifel

WOOLF, EDWARD : American musician and novelist; born in London, England, Sept., 1803; died in New York March 14, 1882. After acting as a musical conductor in his native city, he emigrated (1839) to New York, where his abilities were soon recognized, and where he was engaged as orchestral leader, musical instructor, and choirmaster. He contributed many novels to “The Jewish Messenger” during the early part of the existence of that periodical; among these may be mentioned “The Jewess of Toledo,” “The Vicomte d'Arblay,” and “Judith of Bohemia.” Woolf’s sons all attained more or less prominence: Solomon, as a professor of art and drawing for forty years in the College of the City of New York; Benjamin E. (born in London Feb., 1836; died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, 1901), as a dramatist and composer (“The Mighty Dollar” and “The Doctor of Alcantara”); Michael Angelo (born in London 1837; died in New York March 4, 1899), famous for his street caricatures; Philip (born in New York Feb. 7, 1848; died in Boston 1903), as a physician and novelist; and Albert Edward, as an inventor.

Bibliography: Isaac S. Isaacs, Edward Woolf, in Publ. Am. Jew. Hist. Soc. 1904. A. - A. S. I.


From Theatres in Victorian London Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Canada, and Jacqueline Banerjee, Associate Editor, the Victorian Web

The [Royal] Pavilion (Whitechapel Road, Mile End)

Wyatt and Farrell opened this home for "Newgate melodrama" in November 1828. Destroyed by fire in 1856, the theatre was rebuilt. Fanny Clifton (Edward Stirling's wife) saw her first success here. Under the management of Morris Abrahams (1871-94) it catered to largely Jewish audiences from the neighbourhood, and its stage saw many Jewish actors.


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Edward Woolf's Timeline

1803
September 1803
Stepney, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Before parents marriage in May 1807?

1836
February 16, 1836
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1837
August 27, 1837
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
1838
1838
Alabama, United States
1841
June 1, 1841
Mobile, Alabama, United States
1842
1842
Pennsylvania, United States