- One of the legendary talents of the Yiddish theater, Menasha Skulnik also appeared in several Broadway shows, most notably in Clifford Odets' "The Flowering Peach" and Harold Rome's "The Zulu and the Zayda," winning a Tony award for Best Actor in a Musical for the latter in 1964. He died in 1970 at the age of eighty.
- Buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, New York.
- Ran away at 13 to join the circus.
- Seventh of nine children.
- After his first wife Sarah died in 1943 he moved with his child to 69-39 Yellowstone Blvd in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
- Immigrated to New York in 1913.
- Collapsed on stage in a rehearsal for a new show he was bringing to Broadway. He died weeks later.
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