October 19, 2024

When Boris Met Mendele: An Episode from Thomashefsky’s 1913 European Tour

Forverts (Forward, New York), December 7 and 14, 1913 Translated by Zachary M. Baker Translator’s Introduction. The stars of the Yiddish theatre in its heyday spent a lot of time on the road—and at least two of them chronicled their overseas travels in the pages of the New York Forverts. Boris Thomashefsky’s account of his […]
April 29, 2024

Tsvishn Falndike Vent: An Interview With Avram Mlotek, Zalmen Mlotek, and Motl Didner

Last November, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene opened its final production of 2023, a musical revue called Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent): Unveiling Resilience and Hope During the Holocaust. The production was curated and written by Avram Mlotek, with music curated and arranged by Zalmen Mlotek, and directed by Motl Didner. The Folksbiene’s website explains […]
May 24, 2023

Excerpts from In Fayer un Flamen: Togbukh fun a Yidisher Shoyshpilerin (In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Yiddish Actress) by Shoshana Kahan (Part II)

Translated and introduced by Sheva Zucker, edited by Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel for Women on the Yiddish Stage/Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.
May 14, 2023

fun a Yidisher Shoyshpilerin (In Fire and Flames: Diary of a Yiddish Actress) by Shoshana Kahan (Part I)

Translated and introduced by Sheva Zucker, edited by Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel for Women on the Yiddish Stage/Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.
April 17, 2023

Khane Braz: three news articles

These translations are part of a series devoted to Yiddish actresses in the Holocaust, published to mark Yom HaShoah and the eightieth commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
January 30, 2023

My Way Alone, by Chayele Grober (Part II)

Chayele Grober began her stage career as an actress with the Hebrew theatre “Habima.” She also performed as a solo artist in her own program of song, drama, and humor, in both Yiddish and Hebrew.
January 22, 2023

My Way Alone, by Chayele Grober (Part I)

Chayele Grober began her stage career as an actress with the Hebrew theatre Habima. She also performed as a solo artist in her own program of song, drama, and humor, in both Yiddish and Hebrew.
January 5, 2023

Osherowitch and Rumshinsky on the Piety of Regina Prager

Regina Prager was one of the first leading ladies of the Yiddish stage, known for her extraordinary operatic voice and her continued Jewish observance throughout her life.
September 12, 2022

Vos flist durkhn oder: A conversation with playwright Mikhl Yashinsky on his new play

Mikhl Yashinsky’s new one-act Yiddish play premiered at the Lower East Side Play Festival at the Stanton Street Shul in New York City on July 25, 2022.
August 4, 2022

The Yiddish Art Theatre Repertoire: Ten New Synopses for Plotting Yiddish Drama

The Yiddish Art Theatre in Plotting Yiddish Drama.
June 20, 2022

How I Got Five Thousand Dollars from a Theatre Customer

In his memoirs, Menashe Skulnik recalled the many years when he performed in cities outside of New York – including six years in Philadelphia, which he considered to be a theatrical purgatory.