Reviews

The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage is a mon­u­men­tal work that tells the sto­ry of Avrom Gold­faden, Yid­dish the­ater’s most cen­tral, con­found­ing, and enig­mat­ic fig­ure while also sit­u­at­ing it in the con­text of Yid­dish theater’s ini­tial development. 

Nov 25, 2019

Nov 20, 2023

Today’s Yid­dishists can find his­tor­i­cal mod­els for polit­i­cal­ly-engaged cul­tur­al activism in Nick Under­wood’s account of inter­war Paris.

Feb 07, 2024

These three wriers with lives unfold­ing in three dif­fer­ent local­i­ties — Tsarist Rus­sia, Poland, and the US — wrote plays that grap­ple with issues —such as the trag­ic fate of the agune (“chained wife”), moth­er­hood, self-real­iza­tion, sex work, finan­cial inde­pen­dence, and repro­duc­tive auton­o­my— that unfor­tu­nate­ly are still urgent a cen­tu­ry later.

Jul 09, 2024

Paula Ansaldo’s book brings about a long-await­ed return of Yid­dish and the IFT to their right­ful place in Argen­tine the­ater his­to­ry and Jew­ish the­ater history.

Feb 26, 2025