Early 20th Century
October 19, 2024
When Boris Met Mendele: An Episode from Thomashefsky’s 1913 European Tour
Forverts (Forward, New York), December 7 and 14, 1913 Translated by Zachary M. Baker Translator’s Introduction. The stars of the Yiddish theatre in its heyday spent a lot of time on the road—and at least two of them chronicled their overseas travels in the pages of the New York Forverts. Boris Thomashefsky’s account of his […]
August 4, 2022
The Yiddish Art Theatre Repertoire: Ten New Synopses for Plotting Yiddish Drama
The Yiddish Art Theatre in Plotting Yiddish Drama.
May 12, 2022
Khine Braginskaya: The Earliest Days of the Yiddish Theatre in Russia
Khine Braginskaya’s career, much like the career of her husband Avrom Fishzon, reflected almost all of the Yiddish theatre’s historical chapters.
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?
January 28, 2021
Adapting God of Vengeance in Buenos Aires: An Interview with Argentine Director Daniel Teveles
The DYTP interviews Daniel Teveles about his reinterpretaiton Sholem Asch’s canonical drama God of Vengeance.