10 Things You Need to Know About God of Vengeance

Because of the wrong interpretation of my play, *The God of Vengeance*, now running at the Apollo Theatre, I wish to make the following statement…

The New Yiddish Rep’s production is no period play. The play itself feels remarkably modern, even 110 years later, and the New Yiddish Rep has given *Got fun nekome* a production to match.

"There are no small parts, only small actors,” my dad would tell me...

Montreal prides itself on being the city of festivals. It is home to the world’s largest, if not the most prestigious, jazz festival, and the largest, and maybe the most prestigious, comedy festival.

Just over two years ago, Joel Berkowitz and I published the first blog post on yiddishstage.com introducing the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project.

We Brits Have been sending some of our finest actors across the Atlantic for as long as anyone can remember.

The Netherlands never established a permanent Yiddish theatre, but it did establish the Ansky Society

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.

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.

Bertha Kalich (1874-1939) was a great actress on the Yiddish and English-language stage.