1918-1945
February 28, 2017
10 Things You Need to Know About God of Vengeance
A Twitter summary of its production history would read something like this: “admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated.”
January 16, 2017
Sholem Asch: God of Vengeance is Not an Immoral Play
Because of the wrong interpretation of my play, *The God of Vengeance*, now running at the Apollo Theatre, I wish to make the following statement…
November 20, 2016
London – New York, or The Great British Yiddish Theatre Brain Drain
We Brits Have been sending some of our finest actors across the Atlantic for as long as anyone can remember.
November 9, 2016
Dragging the Netherlands into a Global World: Yiddish Theatre and the Ansky Society
The Netherlands never established a permanent Yiddish theatre, but it did establish the Ansky Society
September 29, 2016
“A day that tortured my body and tormented my soul”: Bertha Kalich’s Kol Nidre in Bucharest
Bertha Kalich (1874-1939) was a great actress on the Yiddish and English-language stage.
July 27, 2016
How I Rediscovered Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride)
Michael Ochs on rediscovering the 1923 Yiddish operetta Di goldene kale by Joseph Rumshinsky.