A new collection of Yiddish plays sheds light on the plight of the ‘agunes’
Rokhl’s Golden City: Context and subtext about gender in Yiddish theater
Its birth owes everything to an unlikely hero, Avrom Goldfaden, and a well-timed war with the Turks
The story of a hugely popular play about African Americans falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931 in Scottsboro, Alabama—that premiered in 1935 Warsaw
Rokhl’s Golden City: Changing the face of Yiddish theater—and the sound of Yiddish music
A very Jewish production speaks, in its specificity, to the universal experience of being a minority
Rokhl’s Golden City: A superb new production of Jacob Gordin’s Shakespeare adaptation, a dive into the Yiddish folksong archives of proto-ethnomusicologist Ruth Rubin, and a first farewell drag act
Rokhl’s Golden City: Shakespeare reinvented, Klezmer reimagined, and Yiddish Nobels reframed for Canadian heroes
Clifford Odets’ masterpiece gets a spirited revival in the mamaloshen
A new effort is underway to preserve a fading piece of Lower East Side history
Rokhl’s Golden City: What 1970s sitcom TV and 1920s Yiddish theater have in common
Finkel, the Yiddish theater star and Emmy-winning actor who passed away Sunday, was a living reminder of what had gone before and been lost on the streets of New York
The National Yiddish Theatre revival of ‘The Golden Bride’ is an energetic operetta now playing at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage
More of the Jewish tradition is vanishing in present conditions of security and prosperity than ever vanished in past conditions of oppression and poverty
Letty Cottin Pogrebin offers a moving tribute to her longtime friend
I was reminded of the Polish critic and Shakespeare scholar at the New Yiddish Rep’s production of Beckett’s masterpiece
A revival of Yiddish poet H. Leivick’s play reveals a genius at the center of a turn-of-the-century literary scene
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