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Jun 29, 2019

“A Piquant Curiosity”: The Gender-Bending Drama Yo a man, nit a man

Zachary Baker

Read about the gender-bending play Yo a man, nit a man (Yes a Man, Not a Man).
Long Form
Dec 09, 2019

Interview with Joshua Horowitz on the orchestration of Bas-Sheve

Jake Marmer, John Schott

​In February of 2019, Josh Horowitz was sent the manuscript of Henekh Kon’s piano and vocal score of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish opera, Bas-Sheve.
Sep 04, 2019

The Yiddish Theatre Time Machine

Zachary Baker, Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance, Barbara Henry, Faith Jones, C. Tova Markenson, David Mazower, Alyssa Quint, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, Nick Underwood

The DYTP team on the performances they would have liked to witness.
Aug 21, 2019

An Interview with Daniel Galay

Ellen Cassedy

​Daniel Galay is a prolific playwright, composer, and pianist living in Israel.
Jun 25, 2019

Top 10 Queerest Moments in the Yiddish Theatre: An Illustrated List In honor of Pride Month 2019

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

A DYTP top 10 list.
May 17, 2019

Grand Opera for Yiddish Speakers in Early Twentieth-Century America! Who Knew?!

Daniela Smolov Levy

In the spring of 1904, New York witnessed the unlikely spectacle of a musical-dramatic adaptation of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal—in Yiddish.
Apr 30, 2019

Dystopia on the Verge: Or Why a 1934 Yiddish Play about Charlie Chaplin Still Matters

Debra Caplan

Somewhere, in an obscure port city in Europe…
Apr 15, 2019

The World of Sara Levy

Nancy Sinkoff

Sara Levy studied with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, son of J. S. Bach, and became an accomplished keyboardist. She also supported a Jewish orphanage in Berlin and was a known salon hostess.
Apr 02, 2019

Yiddish Theatre in Buenos Aires Between the Two World Wars

Susana Skura

Buenos Aires has grown to be one of the most important cities for Yiddish theatre in South America.
Feb 20, 2019

“More Argentine than Martín Fierro”: Jevel Katz’s Debut in Buenos Aires, 1930

Zachary Baker

During the 1930s, Buenos Aires cemented its reputation as one of the capitals of Yiddishland. And Jevel Katz, the Yiddish Carlos Gardel, one of the greats.
Jan 16, 2019

Henry James: The Yiddish Stage in The American Scene

Judith Thissen

Dec 21, 2018

Why Does Muni Weisenfreund Play “Shund”?

Zachary Baker

The career of the young actor Muni Weisenfreund is noteworthy, practically legendary.