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Theater

"A Yidishe shiksah?"

Miriam Bienstock, co-founder of Atlantic Records, recounts a funny story about going to the Yiddish theatre.

My aunt's Green Mansions resort

 Susan Bronson, executive director of the Yiddish Book Center, describes the famous Jewish resort her great aunt owned in the Adirondacks.

Peretz’s Theatrical Works: “A Night in the Old Marketplace”

Professor Ruth Wisse describes Peretz’s “A Night in the Old Marketplace” as “an attempt to write a kind of mytho-poetic drama about Polish Jewish life in its totality.”

Gailing's story about his mother

Ben Gailing tells the story of his mother's first visit to the Yiddish theatre to see him perform with Maurice Schwartz' Troupe.

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Leyke Post Carey sings "Yiddish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn"

Everything sound best - if you say it in Yiddish!

Listen to "Purim" by Leyke Post Carey

A swinging song about one of the happiest Jewish holidays by Boston’s legendary Yiddish theatre composer, Rueben Ossofsky (heard here on piano).