Subjects

Yiddish theatre and drama have explored all of the major themes and issues relating to the Jewish experience from medieval times to the present.


January 9, 2018

Revival and Homage Productions of Yiddish Theatre

There’s something about the popular entertainment of the 1880s-1930s that draws people to fool around with creative ways of making it contemporary.
December 11, 2017

Goodbye, Columbia: A Yiddish Playwright and the German Stage

Pinski came to prominence as a Yiddish writer and playwright, yet his connection to German theatre and cultural life was strong.
November 27, 2017

Perla Rozenblum: A Porteño Life in Yiddish Theatre

Why is it that I love the theatre so much? Because my parents, in Poland, went to the theatre a lot.
October 17, 2017

My Zylbercweig

Zalmen Zylbercweig blazed a path that all subsequent students of Yiddish theatre history follow…
October 9, 2017

Zalmen Zylbercweig, Shnorer-historian of the Yiddish Theatre

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.
September 24, 2017

Something Special for the High Holidays

Kol Nidre on Broadway, a cantor with a voice that sounds like fifty canaries, and other High Holiday gigs in turn-of-the-century New York City.