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(JTA) In recent years, Yiddish theater has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence, with Yiddish-language performances wowing audiences in New York, online and, last month, Stockholm. But perhaps its biggest ...

A new musical from National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene stitches together music written and performed in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and ’40s. By Laura Collins-Hughes Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s ...

Sign up for the Yiddish Brief, a newsletter in English about what’s happening in the Yiddish world today, brought to you weekly by our Forverts editor Rukhl ...

To BE or not to be — ” The actor pauses for effect, then moves downstage. “Let it be, that’s what we paid for!” shouts an old man in the orchestra. Othello gestures to Desdemona, boards a gondola — ...

The 33-year-old Chelsea resident is a Yiddish actor and playwright when he isn’t teaching the language at YIVO and The Workers Circle. (New York Jewish Week) — In the Yiddish classes Mikhl Yashinsky ...

At the end of the 19th century, a young woman chose, against her mother’s wishes, to become an actress. She ended up becoming the most popular Yiddish actress of all time. Today, even those people who ...

Dan Katzir was vacationing in New York in December 2000 when he stumbled across Zypora Spaisman, an 84-year-old woman who soon changed his life. Mr. Katzir -- an Israeli-born, 40-year-old filmmaker -- ...

Knowing what “Ben Ikh Bin a Rotshild” meant made one contestant a rich(er) man. But perhaps its biggest audience yet came on Thursday night, when “Jeopardy!” devoted an entire category to it. The ...

Between the late '30s and 2006, the number of Yiddish stage theaters in the Big Apple sadly dwindled from twelve to one. Two of the last remaining institutions were the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, ...