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Howard Jacobson tests the limits and contours of a Jewish way of speaking, presenting an Anglo-Jewish dialogue with post-imperial culture.

Nahma Sandrow is a librettist and a scholar of theater and cultural history. She is author of Vagabond Stars: A World History of Yiddish Theater and two volumes of translations of Yiddish plays.

What if Shylock spoke Yiddish? One experimental production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” did just that.