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(b. 28 February 1898 in New York City; d. 5 April 1992 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania), greatest attraction of the Yiddish musical theater for more than sixty years, during the most cataclysmic period of Jewish history.

Picon, born Margaret Pyekoon on New York’s Lower East Side, was the first of two daughters of Clara Ostrow (later Ostrovsky), who had fled pogroms near Kiev, Ukraine, Russia, and Louis Pyekoon (later Picon), a needleworker who abandoned a wife and three children in Warsaw to emigrate to the United States, where he married Clara. Professing disappointment that his wife gave birth to only daughters, he abandoned his American family after the birth of Picon’s sister.

The Picons moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the turn of the century, and Clara got a job as wardrobe mistress at the Columbia Yiddish Theater. To supplement the family’s income, Clara encouraged her daughter, an eager performer who charmed audiences from the start, to sing on trolley Gertrude berg biography!