1945-1999

There’s something about the popular entertainment of the 1880s-1930s that draws people to fool around with creative ways of making it contemporary.

Zalmen Zylbercweig blazed a path that all subsequent students of Yiddish theatre history follow…

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.

Yaschar Aronowicz, My father, participated in Yiddish theatre for three decades, in at least two European cities, Berlin and Paris.

Camp Boiberik opened in the 1920s and closed in 1979, and if you will indulge a momentary digression from the topic, allow me to illustrate the importance of this camp for our subject.

My first real-life encounter with Fyvush Finkel coincided roughly with my entry into the world of New York Yiddish theatre.