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Apr 11, 2018

Rosa Rapoport and Teatro IFT in Buenos Aires

C. Tova Markenson

In this excerpt from Rosa’s oral history, she shares her memories performing on stage at Teatro IFT, and the theatre’s eventual transition from Yiddish to a Spanish-language repertoire.
Mar 26, 2018

Sholem Asch at the End of the World

Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams

Sholem Asch belongs to those Yiddish authors who often defy rather than obey the conventions of Yiddish culture and Jewish sensibilities.
Mar 12, 2018

Curtain Falls on the Sunshine Theatre

Judith Thissen

One of the last remnants of the Second Avenue Yiddish Theatre District will be demolished to give way for a “boutique” office building.
Feb 27, 2018

The Yiddish Dramatic Repertoire: A User’s Guide

Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance

“Plotting Yiddish Drama” (PYD), a new DYTP initiative, which will gradually expand in terms of both its content, and tools we will create to help us better understand connections among the plays.
Feb 12, 2018

Rubber Bullets at False Targets: On Dzigan and Shumacher’s Performance in the Soviet Union

Diego Rotman

Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Schumacher’s professional artistic career began as actors in the experimental Yiddish theatre “Ararat,” in Łódź .
Jan 09, 2018

Revival and Homage Productions of Yiddish Theatre

Mark Slobin

There’s something about the popular entertainment of the 1880s-1930s that draws people to fool around with creative ways of making it contemporary.
Dec 11, 2017

Goodbye, Columbia: A Yiddish Playwright and the German Stage

Sonia Gollance

Pinski came to prominence as a Yiddish writer and playwright, yet his connection to German theatre and cultural life was strong.
Nov 27, 2017

Perla Rozenblum: A Porteño Life in Yiddish Theatre

C. Tova Markenson

Why is it that I love the theatre so much? Because my parents, in Poland, went to the theatre a lot.
Oct 17, 2017

My Zylbercweig

Joel Berkowitz

Zalmen Zylbercweig blazed a path that all subsequent students of Yiddish theatre history follow…
Oct 09, 2017

Zalmen Zylbercweig, Shnorer-historian of the Yiddish Theatre

Faith Jones

When Zalmen Zylbercweig, died in 1972, he was 77, and just about to finish Volume 7 of his Encyclopedia of Yiddish Theatre, which he had been working on for 54 years.
Sep 24, 2017

Something Special for the High Holidays

Judith Thissen

Kol Nidre on Broadway, a cantor with a voice that sounds like fifty canaries, and other High Holiday gigs in turn-of-the-century New York City.
Sep 11, 2017

Yaschar: My Father’s Life in Yiddish Theatre

Annette Aronowicz

​Yaschar Aronowicz, my father, participated in Yiddish theatre for three decades, in at least two European cities, Berlin and Paris. All I have managed to salvage thus far are …