Ellen Perecman holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Graduate Center -CUNY and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. She is also a professionally trained actor who studied with Julie Bovasso and Vivian Matalon. Ellen recently published her English translations of Yiddish plays through IUniverse in a volume entitled Ten Yiddish Plays in Translation. Ellen is a native speaker of Yiddish.
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An Excerpt from Mississippi
Leyb Malakh
Translation by Ellen Perecman
Edited by Alyssa Quint
An excerpt from Leyb Malakh’s Yiddish-language play entitled Mississippi, which was written and performed for the first time in Warsaw in 1935.
Jun 25, 2021