“theater”
Review
Review of Nick Underwood's Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France
Sarah Biskowitz
Pedagogy
Tsugob: Urke Nachalnik on the Yiddish Stage
Jonah Lubin
Last spring we published Jonah Lubin's overview and bibliography of "Master Criminal" Urke Nachalnik. Now, he has expanded this research to discuss how Urke Nachalnik was represented in popular Yiddish culture.
Feb 06, 2024
Review
Review of Underworld Trilogy (god of vengeance, Motke Thief, The Dead Man) by Sholem Asch, trans. Caraid O’Brien
Jonathan L. Green
Blog
אָנקומען /Arrived/Przybyli: Searching for Love and Home in a Street Performance
Ula Urszula Chowaniec
Article
Kol Nidre and the Making of the Jewish Theatre Audience
Ruthie Abeliovich
Focusing on Abraham M. Sharkansky’s 1896 play Kol nidre, oder di geheyme yidn in madrid (Kol Nidre, or the Secret Jews of Madrid), this article examines how, on both sides of the Atlantic, the Kol Nidre prayer performed in the Yiddish theatre reflected profound modern and migratory cultural transgressions, between categories such as high and low, religion and entertainment, the holy and the theatrical.
Apr 21, 2023
Blog
A Night at the (Yiddish) Opera: Bas Sheve’s North American Premiere
Julie Sharff
As the biannual Ashkenaz festival kicked off, so did the North American Premiere of Bas Sheve, a Yiddish opera, on August 31, 2022.
Jan 13, 2023
Pedagogy
Let's not wait!: Introducing preschoolers to Yiddish through Leah Hoffman's Alefbeys
Beth Dwoskin
Pedagogy
Labzik Assembled! Bringing Radical 1930s Yiddish Children’s Literature to the Virtual Stage
Cameron Bernstein
Interview
Acting Like a Jewish Witch: An Interview with The Sorceress Star Mikhl Yashinsky
C. Tova Markenson
Blog
Jewish Victims, Jewish Virtue, but Not Much Jewish History: A Review of The Argentinian Prostitute Play