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April 25, 2018
Brush Up on Your Yiddish History Plays
The latest batch of Plotting Yiddish Drama features a batch of historical dramas and includes even more examples of works with Sephardic themes.
April 11, 2018
Rosa Rapoport and Teatro IFT in Buenos Aires
In this excerpt from Rosa’s oral history, she shares her memories performing on stage at Teatro IFT, and the theatre’s eventual transition from Yiddish to a Spanish-language repertoire.
March 26, 2018
Sholem Asch at the End of the World
Sholem Asch belongs to those Yiddish authors who often defy rather than obey the conventions of Yiddish culture and Jewish sensibilities.
March 12, 2018
Curtain Falls on the Sunshine Theatre
One of the last remnants of the Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre District will be demolished to give way for a “boutique” office building.
February 27, 2018
The Yiddish Dramatic Repertoire: A User’s Guide
The narrator of Thomas Wolfe’s 1935 story “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn” begins his snarky account of an encounter with a man exploring the borough by proclaiming, “Dere’s no guy livin’ dat knows Brooklyn t’roo an’ t’roo, because it’d take a guy a lifetime just to find his way aroun’ duh goddam town.” Replace “Brooklyn” with “the Yiddish […]
February 12, 2018
Rubber Bullets at False Targets: On Dzigan and Shumacher’s Performance in the Soviet Union
Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Schumacher’s professional artistic career began as actors in the experimental Yiddish theatre “Ararat,” in Łódź .