{"id":834,"date":"2016-09-29T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/?p=834"},"modified":"2023-05-01T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:57:08","slug":"a-yiddish-musical-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/a-yiddish-musical-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yiddish Musical That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In thinking back&nbsp;over the many years in which I have been involved with theatre, particularly the Yiddish theatre, there are two specific things that I must call to the attention of the reader. The first: during those years I was a practicing attorney in New York and many of the individuals became not only friends, but clients. The second is&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/the-secular-yiddish-school-and-summer-camp-a-hundred-year-history-19879\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Boiberik<\/a>, the summer camp of the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laits.utexas.edu\/gottesman\/sholworkman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sholem Aleichem Folks Institute<\/a>, where I was both a camper and a counselor. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a summer\u2019s evening in the late 1980s, I stood on the steps of the dining room at the Workmen\u2019s Circle Camp in Hopewell Junction, N.Y., with Harold Ostroff, whose many leadership positions included General Manager of the Forward Association and President of the Workmen\u2019s Circle, and watched the children, dressed in white for Shabbos. I expressed my disappointment that Boiberik had to close while the Circle camp was still going strong, to which Harold replied, \u201cIt had to close; you were too Jewish.\u201d Sadly, he had a point. Camp Boiberik\u2019s insistence on maintaining some of its founding principles, like requiring counselors to be Yiddish speakers, proved unsustainable in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/04\/09\/obituaries\/ben-bonus-63-a-yiddish-actor-and-producer.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ben Bonus<\/a>,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/the-assimilator\/212757\/celebrating-the-life-and-career-of-yiddish-theater\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mina Bern<\/a>,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/the-assimilator\/136218\/shifra-lerer-95-yiddish-star-of-stage-and-screen\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shifra Lerer<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yiddishkayt.org\/view\/spaisman\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zypora Spaisman<\/a>, who was the nurse for the children\u2019s camp, performed on weekends. During the winter, all of these performers could be seen on the stage of the Folksbiene along with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faujsa.fau.edu\/lux\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lillian Lux<\/a>, wife of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09sH61GWnWs\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pesach\u2019ke Burstein<\/a>&nbsp;and mother of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeburstyn.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Burstyn<\/a>. Lillian was kind enough to read a work that I had written, and her comments and suggestions were correct and meaningful. In addition, there was Sandy Levitt, a dear friend and client, treasurer of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gvshp.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/29\/hebrew-actors-union-then-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hebrew Actors\u2019 Union<\/a>, and young enough to play \u201cthe kid\u201d where one was necessary, or the love interest \u2014 until his hair started to turn gray. The Folksbiene would later come under the direction of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zalmenmlotek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zalmen Mlotek<\/a>. His father, Yosl Mlotek, was head of Jewish Education at the Workmen\u2019s Circle, but his mother, Chana Mlotek, then the music archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, had been known as Honey Gordon in her camp days at Boiberik. Chana insisted that Zalman and his brother both go to Boiberik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Camp Boiberik Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going on to Hollywood, I last spoke to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0649055\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Opatoshu<\/a>\u2014the actor son of noted Yiddish writer&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/yiddishkayt.org\/view\/joseph-opatoshu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joseph Opatoshu<\/a>\u2014by chance at the airport in Paris, France. And if a film ever needed an old, Jewish hunchback, they cast a longtime client,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1991\/05\/05\/obituaries\/leib-lensky-82-dies-acted-in-films-and-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leib Lensky<\/a>. Although I did not know&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/archives.nypl.org\/the\/21798\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joseph Buloff<\/a>&nbsp;personally, after his death his wife, the well-known Yiddish actress,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/theater-and-dance\/1087\/way-up-in-the-gods\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Luba Kadison<\/a>, was introduced to me by another longtime friend and client, Joe Singer, son of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yivoencyclopedia.org\/article.aspx\/singer_israel_joshua\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I.J. Singer<\/a>&nbsp;and nephew of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yivoencyclopedia.org\/article.aspx\/Singer_Isaac_Bashevis\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/a>, who had translated both his father\u2019s and uncle\u2019s work from Yiddish to English. Buloff had written a novel entitled&nbsp;<em>From the Old Marketplace,<\/em>&nbsp;and Joe asked me to negotiate the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=V6YbAQAAIAAJ&amp;q=joseph+buloff+and+luba+kadison&amp;dq=joseph+buloff+and+luba+kadison&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjUutDJ15LPAhUD32MKHcPwB-8Q6AEIHDAA\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publication of the book<\/a>&nbsp;on behalf of Luba with Harvard University Press, which I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it came to music, I am proud to say the renowned singer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwSvcv-8DT8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sidor Belarsky<\/a>&nbsp;was a close friend of my parents, and I had the pleasure of translating some of his songs from Yiddish to English. His accompanist at many concerts was the well-known pianist and composer,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.milkenarchive.org\/artists\/view\/lazar-weiner\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lazar Weiner<\/a>, who was the music counselor in Boiberik for many years (and the band leader at my first wedding), followed by musicologists I. Trilling and Vladimir Heifetz. In later years I knew and represented \u201cthe Frank Sinatra of Russia,\u201d Emil Gurevitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of these names might be unfamiliar today but they were talented, well-recognized performers in their day. Unfortunately, with the exception of Mike Burstyn, none of them are with us today. But let me tell you the story of a noteworthy lunchtime meeting with several of these figures, and of a Broadway musical that might have been.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"836\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY279723.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY279723.webp 600w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY279723-215x300.webp 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artistic representations of characters from&nbsp;<em>Yoshe Kalb<\/em>&nbsp;on exhibit at YIVO. Photographer unknown\/Museum of the City of New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Lunch at the Russian Tea Room<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime in the mid-1970s in New York City, I received a call from a client,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zvi_Kolitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zvi Kolitz<\/a>, asking if I was free for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. One never turns down such an invitation. The Tea Room was expensive, fashionable, and the place to be seen. Yes, I was free for lunch. I could taste the borscht, the blini, and the tea in a glass. As an aside, permit me to say that the big hit on Broadway, in those days,&nbsp;was&nbsp;<em>Fiddler on the Roof.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not know the subject matter of the lunch, or why I was being asked, nor did I know who else would be there, but being invited by Zvi was enough for me. Zvi Kolitz was the scriptwriter and co-producer of the first motion picture shot in Israel,<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0048121\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Giv&#8217;a 24 Eina Ona<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(<em>Hill 24 Doesn\u2019t Answer<\/em>&nbsp;[1955]).&nbsp;He was a producer of the UJA shows at Madison Square Garden, the Broadway producer of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pourimshpilunesco.eu\/?page_id=324&amp;lang=en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Megilla of Itzik Manger&nbsp;<\/em>(1968)<\/a>, and taught courses on Jewish thought for many years at Yeshiva University. In later years he was discovered to be the author of<em>&nbsp;<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/zvi-kolitz\/yosl-rakover-talks-to-god\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Yosl Rakover Talks to God<\/em><\/a><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>a Holocaust story of such depth of emotion that many found it unbelievable that he, Kolitz, had not been a survivor of the Shoah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At any rate, when I arrived at the restaurant I met the following people. First there was Sidor Belarsky, the renowned singer and interpreter of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian art songs. Next to him was&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.milkenarchive.org\/artists\/view\/sholom-secunda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sholem Secunda<\/a>, the composer of many Yiddish songs performed on Second Avenue during the heyday of Yiddish theatre and vaudeville, but perhaps more widely known as the composer of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xe2UXccid40\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Bei Mir Bist Du Shein,\u201d made popular by the Andrew Sisters.<\/a>&nbsp;I knew who Secunda was but had never met him, but by coincidence, I knew his sons, who had played baseball in the same schoolyard that I had when we were kids. Next to him was Joe Singer, the son of I. J. Singer, the famous Yiddish novelist and brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Joe did all of the translations of his father\u2019s work, and translated many of his uncle\u2019s stories as well. In the years that followed, Joe and his wife became my clients as well as dear friends, and my wife and I spent a considerable amount of time with them. His wife was a well-known book author, particularly in England, and Joe was, in addition to being a translator, a well-recognized artist and teacher of art.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY317290-copy.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY317290-copy.webp 600w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/yiddish-stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/562\/2023\/04\/MNY317290-copy-300x238.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Menashe Oppenheim, Zypora Spaisman, Mina Bern, unidentified actress, Joshua Zeldis, and Joseph Buloff in&nbsp;<em>The Brothers Ashkenazi.<\/em>&nbsp;Arnold Chekow\/Museum of the City of New York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of I.J. Singer\u2019s best-known works was the novel&nbsp;<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/ij-singer\/yoshe-kalb\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yoshe Kalb<\/a><\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/ij-singer\/yoshe-kalb\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">,<\/a>&nbsp;a disturbing, emotional story of love, betrayal, and deceit within the Hasidic community of Eastern Europe. Joe had adapted the novel for the English-language stage as \u201cYoshe the Loon.\u201d Given that Kolitz was a producer, and I was an attorney in the theatrical field, Secunda saw it as a play with music that he would write, and Belarsky saw himself in the role of the aged rabbi. So the question put to me was this: could I see it as a Broadway production? My answer was no \u2014 not because I thought the play wouldn\u2019t make a dramatic impact, but because we were still overwhelmed by the success of&nbsp;<em>Fiddler<\/em>. Two plays about Eastern European Jews with beards, across the street from one another, was to me a theatrical impossibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, the luncheon was good (I don\u2019t remember who paid), and we all parted in good spirits. To this day I have a copy of the English version of \u201cYoshe the Loon\u201d in my file cabinet in the hope that perhaps\u2026 someday\u2026 Unfortunately, other than myself, none of my lunch companions are with us any longer. The novel&nbsp;<em>Yoshe Kalb<\/em>, however, lives on in both Yiddish and English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[48,11,19,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1945-1999","category-actors","category-north-america","category-places-of-performances"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Yiddish Musical That Never Was - 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