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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
Jan 23, 2020

Interview: Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on their film score for The Ancient Law

Mark Slobin

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin on scoring a Weimar-era film about a backwoods Jewish boy whose talent leads him to show business success and possible romance with a well-placed Gentile woman.
Dec 20, 2019

Magic and Melody Delight In a Yiddish Fairytale Reborn

Debra Caplan

Debra Caplan reviews The Sorceress / Di Kishefmakherin at the National Yiddish Theatre – Folksbiene.
Nov 06, 2019

Theatre: A Sketch

Jessica Kirzane

Jessica Kirzane’s translation and introduction of ​Miriam Karpilove’s “Theatre.”
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.