Explore Yiddish performances by period, from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
Fartaytsht un farbesert--translated and improved! Thus were some Yiddish versions of Shakespeare's plays reportedly promoted. Whether that happened or not, Yiddish t...
The interwar period saw the development of a rich body of Yiddish film, created in centers like Vienna, Warsaw, Moscow, and New York. The films they created often fe...
Millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews perished in the Holocaust, and millions of others were displaced during and after the war. Yet Yiddish plays continued being perfor...
The playwrights who created the Yiddish dramatic repertoire included many of the leading Yiddish writers, often known for their contributions to other genres as well...
Music has been central to the popularity of the Yiddish theatre from medieval times to the present. Yiddish theatre boasts a rich repertoire of operettas, operas, an...
From medieval amateur performances to large, modern professional companies, Yiddish theatre spanned a wide gamut of styles, techniques, and methods. In modern times,...
Yiddish theatre troupes performed in every type of performance space available to them: from private homes to the backs of taverns, from beer gardens to 3000-seat pa...
Socialism. Zionism. Communism. The labor movement. These phenomena came of age alongside the modern Yiddish stage, which explored their ramifications, sometimes in s...
What does it mean to be Jewish? How do Jews interact with their non-Jewish neighbors? How do Jews balance the demands of traditional Judaism while living in the mode...
Yiddish theatre studies is an interdisciplinary field, involving research by theatre historians, musicologists, literary scholars, and many others. These articles sh...
Many of the great songs performed on Yiddish stages were popularized on Yiddish radio stations, and a number of Yiddish dramas were written expressly to be transmitt...
Much of the story of the Yiddish stage can be told through the chronicles of its great companies, including the Vilna Troupe, the Moscow State Yiddish Theatre (GOSET...
Though traditional Yiddish culture kept women from performing in public, they came to play an enormous role in the modern development of the form--particularly as ac...
