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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.
Sep 29, 2016

A Yiddish Musical That Never Was

Leon Gildin

Camp Boiberik opened in the 1920s and closed in 1979, and if you will indulge a momentary digression form the topic, allow me to illustrate the importance of the camp to the subject matter
Sep 16, 2016

When History Belonged to the Opera Writers

Joel Berkowitz

When Avrom Goldfaden dubbed himself the “Father of the Yiddish Stage,” the epithet was in many ways well-earned, if not exactly modest.
Aug 31, 2016

FYVUSH

Rokhl Kafrissen

​My first real-life encounter with Fyvush Finkel coincided roughly with my entry into the world of New York Yiddish theatre.
Aug 03, 2016

Breaking News: Yiddish Theatre Makes Money

Barbara Henry, Alyssa Quint

​Reviews of Avrom Goldfaden’s productions in the Russian empire from 1878 until 1883 are notorious for critics’ snarky pot-shots, huffy asides, and sniffy evaluations.
Jul 27, 2016

How I Rediscovered Di goldene kale (The Golden Bride)

Michael Ochs

Michael Ochs on rediscovering the 1923 Yiddish operetta Di goldene kale by Joseph Rumshinsky.
Apr 26, 2016

Lekoved pesach

Judith Thissen

It was in 1910 that the Yidishes tageblatt (Jewish Daily News) observed, with some dismay, “Where other nationalities spend the bulk of their money at weddings, funerals and processions, the Jew has h
Apr 13, 2016

Should a Married Woman Visit a Yiddish Music Hall?

Judith Thissen

“What a strange question,” you might think. Why would it be a problem if someone went to a music hall simply to have some fun? In the early 1900s, the answer was complicated.