Periods

Explore Yiddish performances by period, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.

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
October 24, 2016

Franz Kafka’s Vagabond Stars
On February 18 1912, a Prague businessman and little-known German-language writer named Franz Kafka introduced an evening of Yiddish literary recitations in the city’s Jewish Town Hall.
September 29, 2016

A Yiddish Musical That Never Was
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.
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.
September 16, 2016

When History Belonged to the Opera Writers
History belonged to the opera writers. First Goldfaden, and later Hurwitz and Lateiner and their followers, owned the franchise on Jewish history.
August 31, 2016

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