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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Yiddish theater

Mikhl Yashinsky (L) and Joshua Horowitz (R) in 'The Gospel According to Chaim,' at the New Yiddish Repertory Theater in New York, December 2023. (Credit: Qixin Zhang)
December 28, 2023, 10:47 pm
NYC gets first original American Yiddish drama in 70 years
New Yiddish Rep stages ‘The Gospel According to Chaim,’ which recounts a Galician Jew’s efforts to shop around the Yiddish word of Christ
By ToI Staff
Mikhl Yashinsky, right, in a scene from 'The Sorceress,' by New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (Courtesy)
January 18, 2023, 2:58 am
This 30-something New Yorker doesn’t need a crystal ball to see a Yiddish revival
Performer and educator Mikhl Yashinsky is bringing the ‘always dying’ language out of the yeshiva and back into the limelight
By Jon Kalish
Cantor Yisroel Leshes filmed his first music video for his song 'Younger World' while on vacation in Venice, teaming up with local Venetian directors and cinematographers. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
February 8, 2022, 4:14 am
This New York City cantor is making modern Yiddish music that swings
When he’s not leading prayers at the Lincoln Square Synagogue, Yisroel Leshes loves jazz – so it’s only natural that he’s doing a fusion of old, new and the swingin’ era in between
By julia GERGELY
A scene from the Yiddish version of 'Waiting for Godot' staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, on November 13, 2021. (Magnus Swärd/Judisk kultur i Sverige/via JTA)
November 20, 2021, 5:33 pm
Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production
Though there are at most around 3,000 speakers in Sweden today, the three shows filled nearly to capacity reflect the popularity of the official minority language
By Katarzyna Andersz
Tom Dugan in a rehearsal for 'Tevye in New York.' (Courtesy of The Wallis/ via JTA)
June 28, 2021, 2:55 am
‘Tevye in New York’ imagines ‘Fiddler’ hero’s life beyond Anatevka
Sholem Aleichem’s beloved protagonist has the stage all to himself in Tom Dugan’s one-man show, driving home the immigrant experience at LA’s Wallis Theater through July 25
By Tom Tugend
Postwar Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb. (Courtesy National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene)
April 19, 2021, 3:19 am
NY Yiddish theater festival spotlights previously unheralded women writers
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene kicks off a run dedicated to female playwrights with renowned Chava Rosenfarb’s ‘The Bird of the Ghetto,’ running April 19-22
By Jordan Hoffman
Barry Manilow is among the performers set to appear in “A Star-Studded Folksbiene Chanukah Spectacular," debuting online December 8, 2020. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
December 9, 2020, 4:07 am
2 virtual Yiddish specials debut online for Hanukkah
The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene offers a holiday special, and the Congress for Jewish Culture presents famous drama ‘The Dybbuk,’ both for free
By Curt Schleier
Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye and ensemble in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” (Victor Nechay/ProperPix via JTA)
March 19, 2020, 5:28 am
Yiddish theater gives fans what to kvell over as stars broadcast from home
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene reaches out to sequestered audiences with free online programming, even as they faithfully prepare for the opening of a new show in May
By Jordan Hoffman
Scene from 'The Sorceress,' on stage through December 29, 2019, at New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (courtesy)
December 10, 2019, 2:46 am
New NY staging of Yiddish operetta ‘The Sorceress’ is sure to charm
It’s a simple tale about good and evil, filled with catchy tunes, dazzling costumes and no shortage of fun schtick
By Jordan Hoffman
From left: Rich Rumelt, the board president of The Workers Circle; Ann Toback, the group's executive director; Seth Rogen; and Mark Rogen at the organization's ceremony in New York City, Dec. 2, 2019. (Mark Stephen Kornbluth via JTA)
December 4, 2019, 5:32 pm
Seth Rogen and father honored for their contributions to Jewish culture
Workers Circle presents its Generation to Generation award to father and son for projects promoting Yiddish in films and theater
By Arielle Kaplan
Harold Bloom spoke with the Yiddish Book Center weeks before his death. (Yiddish Book Center via JTA)
October 18, 2019, 3:05 am
Harold Bloom dreamed in Yiddish until his death
Legendary literary critic, who died Monday, held a lifelong love for the language he grew up with, particularly its theater
By Gabe Friedman
Still from 'Her Second Mother.' (Courtesy Kino Lorber)
May 29, 2019, 3:44 am
Yiddish film season brings back the best, and worst, from old country and new
In NY through July 3, six newly translated and restored movies give up-close look at Jewish life and culture in prewar Europe and America — and even the schlock is worth watching
By Jordan Hoffman
Steven Skybell (Tevye), center, and ensemble in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” (Victor Nechay/ProperPix via JTA)
November 15, 2018, 11:24 pm
NY Yiddish ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ show extended
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s off-Broadway production of musical to run at original venue through December and then reopen at new venue
By JTA
Nicolette Mavroleon appears in 'Hatuey: Memory of Fire,' a chamber opera about a Yiddish poet and his obsession with an indigenous Cuban freedom fighter. (Maria Baranova/via JTA)
September 22, 2018, 6:36 am
An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish opera tells the story of a Jewish refugee
From Havana to Ukraine, the settings are as diverse as the languages in ‘Hatuey: Memory of Fire’ by Grammy Award-winning Frank London and Elise Thoron, playing through September 23
By Josefin Dolsten
Steven Skybell, center, as Tevye and ensemble in the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.” (Victor Nechay/ProperPix via JTA)
July 23, 2018, 11:54 pm
How the cast of ‘Fiddler’ learned their Yiddish in only a month
From changing ‘Tradition’ to ‘Torah’ and singing ‘If I were a Rothschild,’ the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene gives a new twist to the classic musical
By Josefin Dolsten
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