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Jan 22, 2023

My Way Alone, by Chayele Grober (Part I)

Violet Lutz

Chayele Grober began her stage career as an actress with the Hebrew theatre Habima. She also performed as a solo artist in her own program of song, drama, and humor, in both Yiddish and Hebrew.
Nov 07, 2021

Women on the Yiddish Stage: Primary Sources

Alyssa Quint, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

We’re pleased to launch Women on the Yiddish Stage: Primary Sources.
Jan 05, 2023

Osherowitch and Rumshinsky on the Piety of Regina Prager

Beth Dwoskin, Alyssa Quint, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Regina Prager was one of the first leading ladies of the Yiddish stage, known for her extraordinary operatic voice and her continued Jewish observance throughout her life.
Sep 12, 2022

Vos flist durkhn oder: A conversation with playwright Mikhl Yashinsky on his new play

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Mikhl Yashinsky’s new one-act Yiddish play premiered at the Lower East Side Play Festival at the Stanton Street Shul in New York City on July 25, 2022.
Aug 04, 2022

The Yiddish Art Theatre Repertoire: Ten New Synopses for Plotting Yiddish Drama

Sonia Gollance

The Yiddish Art Theatre in Plotting Yiddish Drama.
Jun 20, 2022

How I Got Five Thousand Dollars from a Theatre Customer

Menashe Skulnik, Zachary Baker

In his memoirs, Menashe Skulnik recalled the many years when he performed in cities outside of New York – including six years in Philadelphia, which he considered to be a theatrical purgatory.
May 12, 2022

Khine Braginskaya: The Earliest Days of the Yiddish Theatre in Russia

Ri J. Turner, Khine Braginskaya

Khine Braginskaya’s career, much like the career of her husband Avrom Fishzon, reflected almost all of the Yiddish theatre’s historical chapters.
Jan 20, 2022

Tea Arciszewska: Remembering the Modernist Playwright on Her Sixtieth Yortsayt

Sonia Gollance

Sixty years ago thoday, the Yiddish playwright, actress, theatre company founder, and salonnière Tea Arciszewska (c. 1890 – 1962) died in Paris.
Dec 07, 2021

My Path to the Yiddish Theatre: David Edelstadt’s Revolutionary Recitation

Bella Bellarina-Rubinlicht, Sandra Chiritescu

Bella Bellarina was born in Warsaw on July 15, 1898, into the legendary Rubinlicht family, known for the intellectual and cultural accomplishments of its worldly children.
Nov 07, 2021

“Permit New Actors on the Stage?”: A 1905 Protest Letter by Tsipe Abelman

Tsipe Abelman

Tsipe (Tsipoyre) Abelman trained as a factory seamstress before performing in popular musical works on the Yiddish stage.
Oct 19, 2021

Interview with Nahma Sandrow, translator and editor

Joel Berkowitz

Joel Berkowitz and Nahma Sandrow in conversation about her new anthology, Yiddish Plays for Reading and Performance.
Aug 23, 2021

Khonen in Drag: Cross-Dressing in Two Productions of The Dybbuk during the 1920s (Plus, a Review of One of These Productions)

Zachary Baker

What was the “trouser role”?
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