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Yiddish Theater is a Mirror to the Jewish Soul
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Moishe Rosenfeld - Founder of Golden Land Concerts & Connections, a New York City-based booking agency for Jewish performing arts - reflects on the legacy of Yiddish theater and how theater connects contemporary audiences with Yiddish speakers of the past.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Moishe Rosenfeld.
This excerpt is in English.
Moishe Rosenfeld was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1949.
This interview is part of the Yiddish and the Arts: musicians, actors, and artists series.
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The Story Behind The Musical Golden Land
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Since 2010, the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project has recorded more than 500 in-depth video interviews that provide a deeper understanding of the Jewish experience and the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture.
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