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Mar 22, 2017

​“I would have run away, but there was only one path for me - onto the stage”: Bertha Kalich at the Romanian National Theatre, Part II

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

When I finished the performance, I kept asking Spachner and Hirsh, “where did the rotten onions go?”
Mar 13, 2017

​“I would have run away, but there was only one path for me - onto the stage”: Bertha Kalich at the Romanian National Theatre, Part I

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

The rehearsals at the National Theatre lasted several weeks, and each one took a heavy toll on me.
Feb 28, 2017

10 Things You Need to Know About God of Vengeance

David Mazower

A Twitter summary of its production history would read something like this: “admired, translated, parodied, panned, banned, prosecuted, withdrawn, forgotten, revived, celebrated.”
Jan 16, 2017

Sholem Asch: God of Vengeance is Not an Immoral Play

David Mazower

Because of the wrong interpretation of my play, *The God of Vengeance*, now running at the Apollo Theatre, I wish to make the following statement…
Jan 07, 2017

​Brothel Intrigue, with a Modern Twist: Got fun nekome at the New Yiddish Rep

Debra Caplan

The New Yiddish Rep’s production is no period play. The play itself feels remarkably modern, even 110 years later, and the New Yiddish Rep has given *Got fun nekome* a production to match.
Dec 29, 2016

​Journeys Through a Life in the Theatre: Charles Slucki (1948-2015)

David Slucki

“There are no small parts, only small actors,” my dad would tell me…
Dec 23, 2016

Mending The Torn Curtain: A Documentary Film About the First International Yiddish Theatre Festival

Ben Gonshor

Montreal prides itself on being the city of festivals.
Dec 17, 2016

Blogging the Digital Yiddish Theatre Project, Second Anniversary Edition

Debra Caplan

Just over two years ago, our project was, as we wrote at the time, “an experiment.”​
Nov 20, 2016

London - New York, or The Great British Yiddish Theatre Brain Drain

David Mazower

We Brits have been sending some of our finest actors across the Atlantic for as long as anyone can remember. Charlie Chaplin, Vivien Leigh, Kate Winslet, Christian Bale… the list goes on and on.
Nov 09, 2016

Dragging the Netherlands into a Global World: Yiddish Theatre and the Ansky Society

David Shneer

​Unlike most interwar Yiddish-speaking communities, Yiddish speakers in the Netherlands never established a permanent Yiddish theatre, but they did establish the Ansky Society.
Oct 24, 2016

​Franz Kafka’s Vagabond Stars

Guido Massino

On February 18 1912, a Prague businessman and little-known German-language writer named Franz Kafka introduced an evening of Yiddish literary recitations in the city’s Jewish Town Hall.
Sep 29, 2016

“A day that tortured my body and tormented my soul”: Bertha Kalich’s Kol Nidre in Bucharest

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Bertha Kalich (1874-1939) was a great actress on the Yiddish and English-language stage.