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Oct 24, 2016

​Franz Kafka’s Vagabond Stars

Guido Massino

On February 18 1912, a Prague businessman and little-known German-language writer named Franz Kafka introduced an evening of Yiddish literary recitations in the city’s Jewish Town Hall.
Audiences Actors Directors Central Europe Western Europe Literature Theatre Troupes Women in Yiddish Theatre 1876–1899 Early 20th Century
Sep 29, 2016

“A day that tortured my body and tormented my soul”: Bertha Kalich’s Kol Nidre in Bucharest

Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel

Bertha Kalich (1874-1939) was a great actress on the Yiddish and English-language stage.
Actors Places of Performance Religion Women in Yiddish Theatre 1918–1945
Sep 29, 2016

A Yiddish Musical That Never Was

Leon Gildin

Camp Boiberik opened in the 1920s and closed in 1979, and if you will indulge a momentary digression form the topic, allow me to illustrate the importance of the camp to the subject matter
Actors Directors North America Places of Performance 1918–1945 1945–1999
Sep 16, 2016

When History Belonged to the Opera Writers

Joel Berkowitz

When Avrom Goldfaden dubbed himself the “Father of the Yiddish Stage,” the epithet was in many ways well-earned, if not exactly modest.
Directors Composers & Musicians North America Musical Theatre 1876–1899 Early 20th Century
Aug 31, 2016

FYVUSH

Rokhl Kafrissen

​My first real-life encounter with Fyvush Finkel coincided roughly with my entry into the world of New York Yiddish theatre.
Actors North America Places of Performance Theatre Troupes 1918–1945 1945–1999 21st Century
Aug 03, 2016

Breaking News: Yiddish Theatre Makes Money

Barbara Henry, Alyssa Quint

​Reviews of Avrom Goldfaden’s productions in the Russian empire from 1878 until 1883 are notorious for critics’ snarky pot-shots, huffy asides, and sniffy evaluations.
Directors Eastern Europe Advertising 1876–1899
Jul 27, 2016

How I rediscovered Di golden kale (The Golden Bride)

Michael Ochs

Michael Ochs on rediscovering the 1923 Yiddish operetta Di goldene kale by Joseph Rumshinsky.
Directors North America Research Methods 1918–1945 21st Century
Apr 26, 2016

Lekoved pesach

Judith Thissen

It was in 1910 that the Yidishes tageblatt (Jewish Daily News) observed, with some dismay, “Where other nationalities spend the bulk of their money at weddings, funerals and processions, the Jew has h
Critics North America Advertising Religion Early 20th Century