People
Meet the people who made Yiddish theatre happen: on stage, behind the scenes, and in the audience.
January 20, 2022
Tea Arciszewska: Remembering the Modernist Playwright on Her Sixtieth Yortsayt
Sixty years ago thoday, the Yiddish playwright, actress, theatre company founder, and salonnière Tea Arciszewska (c. 1890 – 1962) died in Paris.
December 7, 2021
My Path to the Yiddish Theatre: David Edelstadt’s Revolutionary Recitation
Bella Bellarina was born in Warsaw on July 15, 1898, into the legendary Rubinlicht family, known for the intellectual and cultural accomplishments of its worldly children.
December 6, 2021
“Permit New Actors on the Stage?”: A 1905 Protest Letter by Tsipe Abelman
Tsipe (Tsipoyre) Abelman trained as a factory seamstress before performing in popular musical works on the Yiddish stage.
October 19, 2021
Interview with Nahma Sandrow, translator and editor
Joel Berkowitz and Nahma Sandrow in conversation about her new anthology, Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance.
August 21, 2021
Khonen in Drag: Cross-Dressing in Two Productions of The Dybbuk during the 1920s (Plus, a Review of One of These Productions)
What was the “trouser role”?
June 29, 2021
A Timeline of Yiddish Drag
Yiddish theatre…the gayest theater?