Preserving and Extending Knowledge Through the Digital Yiddish Theater Project
On October 24, 2016, WUWM’s Bonnie North Interviewed Joel Berkowtz and Debra Caplan about the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.Listen to the interview
In the article “Jewish Theater: Digital Yiddish Theatre Project” on the blog Dress British Think Yiddish, Max Sparber interviewed Joel Berkowtz and Debra Caplan about the DYTP.
The Fall 2016 Newsletter is now available. Download the The Golden Peacock, Fall 2016.
Culinary historian Michael Twitty believes there is a distinction shared by the two culinary traditions he identifies with. Twitty is both African-American and Jewish, and his “Kosher/Soul” project makes the point that the two traditions use food to tell a story in a way that most other traditions do not.
Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project is a collection of interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish …
In summer 2014, PaknTreger (Magazine of the Yiddish Book Center) posted the article “Considering Yiddish Theater: Past, Present, Future” by guest editor David Mazower. In the article, Mazower interviewed Joel Berkowitz on his research into Yiddish Theatre.