Zvee Scooler

Biography

Zvee Scooler was a Russian-born American actor and radio commentator, born in Kamenets-Podolsky (now Ukraine) on December 1, 1899. He made his stage debut with Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater in 1921, where he spent 25 years performing in plays like The Dybbuk and Fiddler on the Roof, for which he played Mordcha, the innkeeper, and rabbi. Scooler also gained fame as the Grammeister on WEVD radio, presenting a weekly rhyming news segment from the 1930s until his death in New York City at age 85.