1918-1945

Sholem Asch belongs to those Yiddish authors who often defy rather than obey the conventions of Yiddish culture and Jewish sensibilities.

Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Schumacher’s professional artistic career began as actors in the experimental Yiddish theatre “Ararat,” in Łódź .

Why is it that I love the theatre so much? Because my parents, in Poland, went to the theatre a lot.

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.

An outtake from the play Indecent

From its beginnings, New York’s Yiddish theatre intersected with the mainstream English-language stage.