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Jun 29, 2015

The Krakow Yiddish Theatre Postcards - a Crowdsourcing Experiment

David Mazower

Think of the pulsating energy of Motown’s dawn in Detroit. Or the soaring sounds of early jazz in New Orleans.
May 18, 2015

Audiences are Idiots

Faith Jones

One of the hardest problems in theatre studies is understanding audiences response.
Apr 28, 2015

Matzah and Melodrama: Nahum Stutchkoff’s Yiddish Song Lyrics

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Nahum Stutchkoff (1893-1965) was a beloved Yiddish radio personality, playwright, lyricist and linguist who created dramas and commercials for WEVD radio.
Mar 18, 2015

Russians? Cossacks? Jews? The Russian Imperial Singers Unmasked

David Mazower

Some photographs just make you smile.
Mar 04, 2015

A Writer, a Painter, and Queen Esther

Zachary Baker

For readers of this blog, Purim reminds us that modern Yiddish theatre traces its lineage from the traditional folk drama genre known as the Purim-shpil.
Feb 04, 2015

Goldfaden’s Rules for Yiddish Actors

Joel Berkowitz

In 1888, the first school for Yiddish actors was supposed to open in New York. It never did.
Jan 29, 2015

Ola Lillith’s Edgy, Avant-Garde Yiddish Cabaret

Jane Peppler

I first discovered Ola Lilith while researching for my band Mappamundi’s Cabaret Warsaw CD.
Jan 21, 2015

The Talented Mr Rotblat and his Micrographic Tribute to Jacob Gordin

David Mazower

This is the story behind an exquisite portrait of a Yiddish dramatist.
Jan 13, 2015

Yiddish Theatre Posters of the 1890’s

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

The New York Public Library’s Digital Collection includes Yiddish theatre posters dating back more than a hundred years.
Jan 01, 2015

The Chasidim Ball

Faith Jones

Between 1921 and 1933, a “Chasidim Ball” was held to raise funds for Poale Zion, or for the Peretz Shule. By why?
Dec 21, 2014

“Entertainment”?

Michael Steinlauf

Over the past year, as time has permitted, I’ve been revisiting the subject of theatre in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Dec 15, 2014

Advice from Sidney Lumet’s Yiddish Actor Dad

Debra Caplan

Sidney Lumet was a legendary director. He was also a child actor in the Yiddish theatre.