moishe finkel (c. 1850 – june 7, 1904) (also known as morris or maurice finkel) was a prominent figure in the early years of yiddish theater. he was business partner first of abraham goldfaden and later of sigmund mogulesko (the greatest yiddish star of the generation) and, for a time, was married to prima donna annetta schwartz. together, they dominated yiddish theatre in bucharest in the early 1880s and in new york city in the late 1880s and into the 1890s, with a repertoire based mainly in the works of joseph lateiner and moses horowitz.