People
Meet the people who made Yiddish theatre happen: on stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience.
November 27, 2017
Perla Rozenblum: A Porteño Life in Yiddish Theatre
Why is it that I love the theatre so much? Because my parents, in Poland, went to the theatre a lot.
October 17, 2017
My Zylbercweig
Zalmen Zylbercweig blazed a path that all subsequent students of Yiddish theatre history follow…
October 9, 2017
Zalmen Zylbercweig, Shnorer-historian of the Yiddish Theatre
When Zalmen Zylbercweig, died in 1972, he was 77, and just about to finish Volume 7 of his Encyclopedia of Yiddish Theatre, which he had been working on for 54 years.
September 24, 2017
Something Special for the High Holidays
Kol Nidre on Broadway, a cantor with a voice that sounds like fifty canaries, and other High Holiday gigs in turn-of-the-century New York City.
September 11, 2017
Yaschar: My Father’s Life in Yiddish Theatre
Yaschar Aronowicz, My father, participated in Yiddish theatre for three decades, in at least two European cities, Berlin and Paris.
August 8, 2017
Yiddish Opera at the Standard Theatre, London 1895
Who in Surabaya would possibly be interested in reading about Yiddish theatre in London’s East End?