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A young artist’s search for the long-lost script of a Yiddish play
Why do so many authors of news articles about the Yiddishist world get it wrong? This question has been plaguing Yiddish ...
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A classic play sounds more American when it is performed in Yiddish. Go figure.
That’s the challenge of a new staging of the play by New Yiddish Rep at Manhattan’s 14th Street Y, where a 1938 Yiddish translation of the play by Chaver Paver is being staged through Dec. 24.
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‘It’s a call to action’: A Yiddish theater company puts on a Sinclair Lewis play that imagines US falling into authoritarianism
Folksbiene first started thinking about putting on a production of the play last year when staff came across the 1936 Yiddish translation of the script. The original performance was part of a New ...